Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thayer Hall, south of Canaday, is a nice, fairly nondescript dorm. About 20 people share each of Thayer's hallway bathrooms. Thayer adds a new twist to Harvard's entryway system: its hallways are actually social...
...living is easy in Holworthy, perched at the top of the North Yard. Its four-person suites feature common rooms and two bedrooms. Each Holworthy floor has two connected quads, which lends the dorm a social...
Weld has a funky, castle-like trim on the outside and large, social hallways on the inside. The dorm, which underwent a massive renovation in 1992, was the first Yard dorm to be fully handicapped-accessible...
...Internet is a different world; it is not quite real, it is "virtual." The first thing you notice through this looking glass is that everything is prefixed by an "e"--e-mail, e-commerce, e-dating--and the rules of the real world, from social Norms in chat rooms to the laws of capitalization in e-mail, don't apply...
Those are the extreme cases, but even for the majority of users who don't qualify as addicts, the social effects of the parallel Internet universe are starting to emerge: e-mail is replacing conversation, e-trade is replacing interaction with real people in real stores. I don't mean to overstate the effect of the Internet, and I'm not sure I believe e-commerce will ever put the real thing out of business. Still, the trend away from "real," face-to-face interaction is unmistakable...