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Nine months ago, the geeks were expected to inherit the earth. Now they consider themselves lucky if they remembered to hit CONTROL-S on their PC keyboards before the screen faded. Once the ruling emotion was IPO frenzy; now it's PG&E fear. The Internet itself is pretty well protected, with most websites housed in generator-filled buildings called data centers. The carefree life of dotcommers who run the websites, however...
This approach, which has been used in Chicago, is known as distributed generation. Just as the computer industry has evolved from a centralized, mainframe universe to a networked PC environment, a small but growing portion of the electricity industry is moving the power source away from one massive plant to a slew of smaller, cleaner turbines dotting the landscape...
...virtually all information relating to cryptography was under the control of the National Security Agency. With the rise of the PC and then the Internet, libertarian-leaning computer hackers realized how easily the government could eavesdrop on their data and how important it was to get cryptography away from the Man and into the hands of the People. Diffie's breakthrough did just that. Throughout the '80s and '90s a ragtag group of like-minded crypto fiends built on his work and distributed it over the Internet, end-running the agency and ensuring that everyday citizens could keep their...
Just ask Choi Moon Sun, 27, and Kim Kwang Chul, 26. Choi was in a PC room in July 1998, trying to stay awake while waiting to catch the first morning bus back to her home in the suburbs. Kim, a university senior, accidentally clicked on her icon and kept pestering her for a chat. They dated, got married a year later, and are expecting their first child later this year. Says Choi: "PC and the Internet became an important part of our lives...
...readily available, easy access to the Internet is exposing more kids to pornography, says Kim Yong Hak, a sociology professor at Yonsei University. In a survey of 10 elementary schools in Seoul, he found 10% of 11-year-olds had visited porn sites. With PCs in kids' bedrooms and PC rooms on every street corner, it isn't easy to turn back the tide. Says Kim: "With one key stroke, a child can switch from an educational site to a porn site...