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There is no doubt that you can find life-saving information on the Internet--and that we're all going to manage our health on the Web someday. Whether you can truly depend on that information or are just playing an elaborate, perhaps risky game of cyberdoctor will depend a lot on the electronic company you keep...
Most of the excitement in the market today centers on such newcomers as Celera and Human Genome Resources, which sell their genetic data to drug companies. The hope is that these data will lay bare the road to many powerful new medicines. And I have little doubt that someday they will. Until then, though, we're still dealing with promises. If you're convinced that promises will become profits, by all means invest. But be smart about it. Buy a basket of biotechs, and limit your exposure to 5% of your total portfolio. Don't get me wrong...
...fall of the Berlin Wall was supposed to bring on the end of history, a time when great power confrontation would give way to the mere frictions of the global marketplace and the lotions of consumerism would keep everything running smoothly. Maybe someday. What we know for now is that all around the edges of the peaceable Banana Republic, history is still being made the old-fashioned way, with land mines and machetes...
...indie acts trying to make themselves heard, life won't get any easier. Someday, the labels hope, consumers will walk up to Web-enabled kiosks in convenience stores and airport terminals, punch in a credit-card number and instantly download two new Mariah Carey songs onto a cassette the size of a pencil tip. When that happens, who's going to bother trawling through thousands of MP3s for the next Fisher? That's why, sitting at a Melrose Avenue cafe early this year, Fisher and Wasserman seemed more relieved than elated. There are now at least 1 million songs available...
Back in 1960, an obscure Dutch cultural critic named Constant Nieuwenhuys predicted that someday we would all become architects. Stuck in a world where everything looked the same, he suggested, we would be so alienated from our environment by technology that we would constantly redesign the space around us just to recover the joy of living...