Word: revolutionize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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-- The Industrial Revolution
Two coming developments will take the video revolution to a new realm. Fiber-optic cable will bring hundreds, even thousands, of channels into the home. And interactive computer technology will give formerly passive viewers almost total control over what they see, when they see it and what they do with...
But affluence for all now appears unlikely, even in the distant future. The emergence of a global economy, far from eliminating poverty, has widened the gap between rich and poor nations. The revolution of rising expectations may not be self-generating, as we had thought. It may even be reversible...
By then, scientists involved in the $3 billion Human Genome Project will have isolated and identified most or all of the more than 100,000 genes crammed into the human genome, the strand of DNA in the nucleus of each of the body's 100 trillion cells (with the exception...
And everything argued that such development would continue in the small, incremental steps that had marked the progress of much of the 19th century. Inventions like the railroad or the telegraph or the typewriter had enabled people to get on with their ordinary lives a little more conveniently. The news...