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...most profound changes afforded by the digital world is the ability to be asynchronous, in the smallest and largest time scales. In the smallest sense, this allows us to use efficiently our channels of communications; for example, interleaving people's conversations--packetizing them--so that many people share the same channel without being aware that they are. In the larger sense, we can expand, contract and shift our personal time in new ways, leaving and receiving messages at mutual convenience. On a yet larger scale, social behavior will also become more asynchronous, with all of us moving in much less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Everything Be Digital? | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

Harvard's voices are too profound and various to hear and process all at once, just as the University itself is too large and diverse to hold in one steady glance. But a walk through the Yard the week before Commencement gave me a chance to listen to some of the voices I've ignored over the last four years, and I stopped longest at my favorite plaque, on the right wall of the gate opposite the Science Center, where Emerson's journal entry from a day in 1836 is inscribed in elegant lettering. The slate tablet speaks more quietly...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: A Long Winding Train | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

...Brown finds Gorey's work profound...

Author: By Sarah A. Dolgonos, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Behind the Macabre | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

...somewhere it lost its sense. [Hizballah] also suffered a lot of blows, but somehow it could not end but by a political step of leadership. To fight against terrorism is like fighting mosquitoes. You can chase them one by one, but it's not very cost effective. The more profound approach is to drain the swamp. So we are draining the swamp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making The Call: An Iron Fist for the Enemies of Israel | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

...clear the Hezbollah is there. They [also] suffered a lot of blows, but somehow it could not end but by a political step of leadership. To fight against terrorism is like fighting mosquitoes. You can chase them one by one, but it's not very cost-effective. The more profound approach is to drain the swamp. So we are draining the swamp. We are in Israel. We are telling them, now we are neighbors and we behave the same way that any normal country would behave. Can you imagine the Germans trying to launch Katyushas at Strasbourg? The French will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barak in His Own Words: A TIME Exclusive | 6/1/2000 | See Source »

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