Word: network
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...still Communist world: peeling white paint, tilting buffet tables, schoolroom chairs bolted together into haphazard couches. But the attraction here isn't the decor; it's the machines: a beige Compaq Proliant 2500 computer and an off-white Dell Poweredge, hooked into a refrigerator-size rack of network routers and, from there, via a thumb-thick black cable, to the infinite abundance of the Internet. Edward Zeng, the 35-year-old Chinese entrepreneur who commands this tiny outpost in the battle for information freedom, can't resist a grin as he looks around the modest but astonishing room buried within...
...night, hundreds of Chinese who don't own a PC crowd into Zeng's six Internet Cafes, where Net time retails for $3.60 an hour. It's fast food for the information age. Zeng, whose Unicom-Sparkice Information Network operates under a license from the government, says his customers are hungry for every byte. "Don't you see?" asks Charles Zhang, another Beijing Netrepreneur. "This is freedom...
...these benefits, China has embarked on a series of nine "golden projects" that will shotgun state-of-the-art technology into every field from health care to finance. By 2010 hundreds of millions of Chinese will be wired to the Golden Bridge financial network, carrying Golden Card smart cards and automatically forking over a chunk of their salaries to the government via a microchip-enabled Golden Tax. Says Bryan Nelson, Microsoft's commanding general in the region: "China is going to be the ultimate proof of all that the Internet can do. And the amazing thing is, the Chinese seem...
Bipin Shah has sued Yager for $100 million. He denies her every rant and threatens to crush her network--one that doesn't just skirt the law but defies it, taunts it, bedevils it. Children of the Underground, which Yager basically runs out of a Dunkin' Donuts shop, is her answer to courts that don't work. And it has turned hundreds of mothers into fugitives and nabbed children from fathers who don't get two minutes in their own defense...
When members of the audience questioned the availability of old episodes, Green took the opportunity to announce that CTW and Nickelodeon have entered into a partnership to launch "Noggin," a digital children's entertainment network that will show, among other things, old Sesame Street shows. The announcement was quickly followed by an audience request for an address to which interested job-seekers could send resumes...