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...economic and technological changes of the 18th century gave rise to the modern novel, what's the 21st century giving us? Well, we've gone from industrialized printing to electronic replication so cheap, fast and easy, it greases the skids of literary production to the point of frictionlessness. From a modern capitalist marketplace, we've moved to a postmodern, postcapitalist bazaar where money is increasingly optional. And in place of a newly minted literate middle class, we now have a global audience of billions, with a literacy rate of 82% and rising...
...America's power were virtually unlimited: our resources were infinite; our military was unstoppable; our ideology was sweeping the world. Bush and Dick Cheney were like homeowners who took on more and more debt, certain that they could cover it because the value of their home would forever rise. They toppled regimes in two countries with little history of competent, representative government. They defined the war on terrorism so broadly that it put the U.S. in conflict not only with al-Qaeda but also with Hizballah and Hamas, with the Shi'ite theocracy in Iran and even with relatively secular...
Fairly or unfairly, neatly or messily, sooner or later the switchover will happen. And when it does, we should take a moment to salute the passing of the analog era. Just as vinyl records gave rise to scratching and skipping, analog TV created a whole gallery of hallucinatory special effects: ghosting, snow, psychedelic colors, vertical hold. We hated them at the time, but we may yet come to miss them. Digital signals are more robust than analog--they're less prone to distortion, and when they break up, they do it in tidy little squares, which aren't nearly...
...regions is so troubling. Leading the job cuts are New York City, which is expected to undergo more painful layoffs in the financial sector, and Los Angeles, where depressed home prices have ravaged the local economy. The report also predicts that the overall unemployment rate in metropolitan areas will rise above...
...Some say formal hats went out of fashion when J.F.K. delivered his Inaugural Address without one. Others blame their demise on the rise of the automobile, which meant that fewer men had to spend time out in the cold walking or waiting for the bus. But in the past two or three years, thanks to popular musicians like Justin Timberlake and Usher, formal hats like the fedora and the pork-pie have become popular again. (See pictures of the fashion of Michelle Obama...