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It started, as the big ideas in technology often do, with a science-fiction writer. William Gibson, a young expatriate American living in Canada, was wandering past the video arcades on Vancouver's Granville Street when something about the way the players were hunched over their glowing screens struck him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1989-1998 Transformation | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

The strains of ABBA are just loud enough that the lyrics can be made out, but not so loud that a conversation of normal volume cannot take place. In fact, this is one of the best aspects of Clark's--unlike many other bars, it can be a venue for...

Author: By Inie Park, | Title: A Better Glass of Beer | 3/5/1998 | See Source »

When this tactic fails to work, as it did that night, one must change the subject of conversation so that he or she does not recede into the netherworld in which all other hours are (or should be) spent. Those other hours seem to be most typically spent in students...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: The Thesis | 3/5/1998 | See Source »

In the sixth-grade humanities class at New York City's Mott Hall, the noise level has reached cacophony. It's mostly animated chatter among the students as they put final touches on oral reports they will deliver in a few minutes. But another sound adds to the din: the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning By Laptop | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

So it's too soon to tell whether laptops will become classroom fixtures (like calculators) or fads (whatever happened to Trapper Keepers?). But the legions of the faithful are growing. At Mott Hall, many of the sixth-graders have adoringly given their computers nicknames. Jose Ramirez, shy and bespectacled, struggled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning By Laptop | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

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