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...computers push their way further into every nook and cranny of America's complex economy, these experiences underline a paradox that has long puzzled almost everybody who comes into contact with thinking machines. Computers help all sorts of people do their jobs faster and more efficiently. Many enthusiasts expect the machines to transform the American economy and society as completely as the internal-combustion engine and electric power did, beginning roughly a century ago. But why is there so little hard numerical evidence that this is happening? In particular, if computers are sparking a new industrial revolution, why have...
...time for Discovery to head home, and every nook and cranny of the shuttle is stuffed with souvenirs of its last hook-up with Mir. Astronaut Andrew Thomas -- who spent 130 days on the Russian station and brought back a bundle of posters, certificates and even a guitar -- seems to have the perennial tourist's problem of packing in zero gravity: "We've got stuff floating everywhere," he said after rejoining his colleagues Thursday...
...Harvard houses? Well, yes, if you're passionately attached to the image of ivy-covered brick (and centipedes), white moldings, fireplaces and winding stairs. What Currier has instead: a cozy, bright, immaculate look (it's even cleaner than Pforzheimer); cheerful carpeting and comfortable chairs and sofas tucked in every nook and corner of the house; the most pleasant dining hall on campus, always sociable but never noisy, completed by that famous fountain; elevators; kitchens on every floor in three of the four towers; solariums in every tower equipped with TV/VCRs, and the largest video collection of any house...
...have intruders that TIME tries to wrestle into moral and historical context. The digital age, for example, has brought not only the excitement of more democratic forms of media but also the specter of invasions of our privacy and the spread of false information and poisonous ideas to every nook of a networked world. The impending biotech age promises not only the ability to engineer an end to diseases but also the weird prospects of cloning our bodies and tinkering with the genes of our children...
After all, the Lowell House Opera is a unique opportunity for students not involved in the arts to get a glimpse of the more technical side of how theater works on campus--and maybe, on their way to the awkwardly-positioned cereal nook, to "trip" over a wire or two, or to "redesign" some scenery on the sly, or to "borrow" a prop. Of course, we at Dartboard are just joking. We would never do such a thing, especially not for the sake of that extra bowl of Cap'n Crunch. Or would...