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...company is investing everywhere, trying to be everything, often giving its products away. A few of the newer pursuits: a proposal to provide free wireless Internet service for San Francisco; an online video store selling TV shows and NBA games; a classified-advertising site; a project to scan every book ever published and make the texts searchable; a free desktop package loaded with software; free instant messaging and online voice communication; a $1 billion investment in America Online. (AOL, like this magazine, is owned by Time Warner.) In the past year or so, Google Inc. has doubled in size...
...personnel discussed whether to fly him to Jerusalem by helicopter but decided it would be too rough a ride, instead opting to transport him by ambulance to Hadassah hospital. He was still conscious when his convey arrived in Jerusalem 48 min. later, but his condition soon deteriorated. An MRI scan revealed a serious brain hemorrhage. Sharon underwent a two-stage operation that lasted more than eight hours. After another surgery on Friday morning, Sharon was in a medically induced coma and attached to a respirator. "Sharon won't come back to be a decision-making person," Moty Ravid, professor...
...Install an anti-spyware program like Spyware Doctor or Spy Sweeper that not only seeks and destroys offending programs, but also detects incoming spyware before it loads and blocks it. If your PC starts acting funny, run a system scan and remove any suspicious files. If you are an active Internet user, set your anti-spyware program to do a full system scan at the end of each...
...Getting Inside Your Head," you reported on scanning techniques that help determine how our brains work. You noted that corporate marketers could use neuroimaging technology to scan people's brain functions as new products are tested. Philosophers and theologians should be alert to those innovative methods for looking inside how the mind works. Those who grapple with the interrelation of mind, soul and body must consider more seriously the implications of the latest information available in brain research. Harvey Bollich Lafayette, Louisiana...
...more important goal of user satisfaction. Rachel Somodi Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. The Cool New World Your article "Biochips For Everyone!", on computer microchips that can be implanted in humans, set off alarm bells [Nov. 14]. While each chip contains a personal ID number that could be scanned like a bar code and provide needed medical data, there is a serious danger. The government or anyone smart enough to hack a security system could end up using biochips to track a person's movements and activities. People might then be forced to have them implanted. And if that happened, anyone...