Word: revolutionizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even though there's a national election being run out of downtown D.C., everybody here knows that the business of the nation is taking place elsewhere: The coast of Long Island. The Georgia Dome. The congressional districts where first-term Republicans battle to save the revolution and their seats.
In a strange way, however, healthy and unhealthy forms of engagement may arise from similar causes. The increase in militia groups and the legislation proposed by Indiana Senator Dan Coats to promote volunteerism reflect, in their own ways, a frustration with government and a wariness of its reach. Which is...
But at the turn of the century, many mills began to move south. No longer could the benefits of deep harbors, access to capital and an abundance of energy offset the virtue of cheap labor. Cities across the northeast--Boston as much as New Bedford or Fall River--became decaying...
That's the great thing about pondering the future these days: there seems to be so much more of it. Between the computer revolution and the end of the cold war, between the birth pangs of the international economy and the death throes of the traditional nuclear family, the demand...
So its creators are focusing on fresher paranoias: Gibson's new novel, Idoru (Putnam), due in September, is a ghost story of sorts. And a second September book, Holy Fire (Bantam), by Bruce Sterling, another godfather of cyberpunk, is about intergenerational war. It's set 100 years in the future...