Word: silicon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...program is not without its powerful supporters, both in and out of the classroom. Silicon Valley, whose executives Gore is ardently courting, is particularly enthusiastic about the idea of wiring the vast, untapped market that Andrew Blau of the Benton Foundation, a nonprofit group that studies the social impact of technology, describes as "like China within our borders." To enlarge this new customer base, companies have offered seminars, free software and help with the applications that schools must make to receive the funding. Industry sources have estimated that $2 billion spent on wiring schools produces as much as $6 billion...
Computers dazzle and inspire their followers, creating so many eunuchs before the temple of silicon and fiber optic. They can be magical tools that bring you a radio broadcast from Omaha to your desktop or run a complex multivariable regression analysis or provide up-to-the-minute stock quotes...
Politicians who couldn't even find Silicon Valley on a map two years ago all praise the importance of universal 'Net access and computers in education. The current robustness of the economy is often laid at the feet of increased productivity due to the intelligent application of computers...
...cool guys is that they hold on to their rebelliousness long after it's romantic. The problem with some squares is that they lose the boy inside them altogether. But perhaps we're moving past the old dichotomies. Soon they'll become meaningless distinctions like mind and body. In Silicon Valley nerdiness is cool. Using drugs, once a sign of coolness, is considered square. Isn't it better, after all, to be a mixture, a cool square, a square cool...
...maintaining combat readiness. "With missiles going farther and planes faster, we need more space," insists Air Force Colonel FRED PEASE. But a coalition of environmental, recreation and peace groups says the reservations would create a giant supersonic battleground where low-flying aircraft and the flares and radar-jamming aluminum-silicon fibers they drop pose a threat to wildlife and motorists. "Have you ever had an F-16 scream over your head at 200 feet?" asks GRACE POTORTI, director of the Rural Alliance for Military Accountability, based in Reno, Nev., which is joining a lawsuit against the Defense Department. The most...