Word: nothingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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No computer software is more popular than Lotus 1-2-3, the electronic spreadsheet program that has sold 5 million copies since 1984. But Lotus Development Corp.'s domination of the $600 million U.S. market for such software has been threatened by an 18-month delay in the company's...
Eddy's tree-ring data revealed other 50-to-100-year intervals in the past when carbon-14 production was high and the sun apparently quiescent. But did this mean that all of these periods were times of extreme cold? Many scientists doubted it, suggesting that the correlation between the...
But amnesia, the disorder of advanced electronic societies, is not the only possible derangement of national memory. There are cultures that remember nothing and cultures that forget nothing. Forgetting nothing might be worse. Remembering nothing produces a mere mindless, stumbling insouciance. Forgetting nothing produces paralysis and death.
This week's story may be the hottest Nash has ever covered, but as a reporter specializing in science and technology, she has contributed to covers on subjects, ranging from supercomputers to supernovas, that have proved as challenging as the sun. A "lopsided liberal-arts graduate" of Bryn Mawr College...
But Batman doesn't really do anything with the idea. There is no moment of revelation; Batman's external battle with the Joker does not seem to have a parallel within himself. He doesn't learn anything or gain any control over himself. He simply defeats this film's embodiment...