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SHOVE THIS! Fiber-optic colonoscopes are better than barium enemas in detecting colon cancer...
...such a thing, at least in the short run, and that medicine's reasons may at least serve to counter some disability, acquired or inherited. If I were to lose my eyes, I would quite eagerly submit to some sort of surgery that promised a video link to the optic nerves. (And once there, why not insist on full-channel cable and a Web browser?) The military's reasons for chip insertion would probably have something to do with what I suspect is the increasingly archaic job description of "fighter pilot," or with some other aspect of telepresent combat...
...Internet will undergo substantial alteration as optical technologies allow the transmission of many trillions of bits per second on each strand of the Internet's fiber-optic backbone network. The core of the network will remain optical, and the edges will use a mix of access technologies, ranging from radio and infrared to optical fiber and the old twisted-pair copper telephone lines. By then, the Internet will have been extended, by means of an interplanetary Internet backbone, to operate in outer space...
...this year, culminating in the Easter Monday shooting at the National Zoo that left an 11-year-old boy in critical condition and five other children wounded? Or for the debacle that allowed telecommunications companies to turn downtown Washington into a no-drive zone by digging axle-rattling fiber-optic-cable trenches on major streets while local authorities stood by twiddling their thumbs? Or the bathtub-size potholes that, until some of them were finally patched last week, made driving my daughter to school an exercise in automotive risk aversion...
...Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and a few smaller markets plus the rest of Mexico due next year. Meanwhile, large infrastructure projects are in the works that will expand the region's ability to meet almost any demand. Global Crossing, an international telecommunications company, is building a $2 billion fiber-optic network that will encircle and crisscross South America, connecting with existing superfast cable lines to Europe, the U.S. and Asia by 2001. The lines will improve connectivity in the region tenfold. Starting this May the Americas II cable system will connect Brazil, the Caribbean and South America's northeast corner...