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...access the past, without fear of reprisal or dismissal? Ad firms parallel the AI race for the perfect chess computer, in their appropriation of our precious individuality and irony, engineering the perfect corporate android to convince us to match the image in the mirror--the billboard, the TV screen--the one now and forever, until the next profit margin rolls around. Who has time for the old time...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Endpaper: Things Past | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

Again. And finally they get it right, the five impeccably lighted iMacs gleaming as they glide forward smoothly on the giant screen. "Oh! Right there! That's great!" Jobs yells, elated at the very notion of a universe capable of producing these insanely beautiful machines. "That's perfect!" he bellows, his voice booming across the empty auditorium. "Wooh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Apple and Pixar: Steve's Two Jobs | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

Where formerly, for example, you could create only five user names per account, now you can have up to seven. With 5.0, you can also create longer screen names (up to 16 alphanumeric characters), which means, of course, that there will be a scramble to sign up full names, like anitahamilton. (I opted for the hackerish unusablesignal--homage to the error message that the television in my office has displayed ever since I ripped the cable out of it and plugged it into my PC.) Another good thing: you can customize your welcome screen with a list of sites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AOL: You've Got 5.0! | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...proper distancing, Robbie's outlandish tale is narrated with understated sympathy by his lawyer, a squeaky-clean member of the bar who is named after his distinguished ancestor, the colonial Virginian George Mason. Robbie's foil is Evon Miller, the latest iteration of one of page and screen's most popular new types: the female FBI agent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pay His Honor | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

Esther Williams, star of screen and swimming pool, has a best-selling autobiography, The Million Dollar Mermaid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Esther Williams | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

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