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...rescue their child from foster parents), through half a dozen other films he has directed or produced (Poltergeist, Back to the Future, The Goonies, Empire of the Sun, Hook, Saving Private Ryan). That's a pretty full gallery of lost boys and girls. And what is that little parchment-pated E.T. but a precocious kid, light-years from home, looking for a cell phone...
...rescue their child from foster parents), through half a dozen other films he has directed or produced (Poltergeist, Back to the Future, The Goonies, Empire of the Sun, Hook, Saving Private Ryan). That's a pretty full gallery of lost boys and girls. And what is that little parchment-pated E.T. but a precocious kid, light-years from home, looking for a cell phone...
...flung recruits in the U.S. Army, which just launched a $600 million online learning initiative. But I had more trouble with the vision of millions of doe-eyed eighteen year-olds dialing up for degrees without leaving their desks. Sure, digital diplomas are often cheaper than the traditional parchment ones, but I assumed that virtual students got precisely what they paid for - a fraction of the collegiate experience devoid of all the time-honored rituals like keg parties and all-nighters during finals...
...listen as your desktop virtual assistant reads aloud your schedule for the day. The temperature and lighting will adjust automatically to your preferences. Though we probably won't attain the mythical paperless office, there will likely be less of the messy stuff lying about, thanks to high-tech, rewritable parchment. And forget about typing: sophisticated voice recognition will let you tell your PC what to do (though all that yakking could just as easily make you hoarse...
...years. Would even the most loving mother save a comparable e-mail? Surely one could print it out--many do--but it would take a truly saintly matron to preserve the cold legibility of computer type on flimsy white paper. Oh, for the days of illegible, personal scratches on parchment...