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...ends his e-mails with the tag line: "Silicon shall replace carbon. The revolution will be automated." When he was a kid, Calkins owned a German shepherd, but that was before he discovered computers. Now he works at an Internet firm, dotes on his pet robot and in his spare time serves as president of the Robotics Society of America...
Fast-forward to C60’s performance. Loud, proud and dirty, their leader was a red dread-locked maniac with plenty of energy to spare. The crowd, myself included, seemed pathetically eager to welcome them, coming as they did on the heels of some intensely boring presentations. Fortunately, C60 didn’t disappoint, with blistering guitar attacks and wild gyrations injecting energy into a flagging atmosphere. I noticed however, that all their rebellious posturing seemed very much like a pose. Their “spontaneous” thrashing appearing self-conscious and rehearsed...
...what some of America's best entrepreneurs have failed to do so far--successfully apply the Internet treatment to the bureaucratic hernia that is health care. No other major business relies so heavily--and so inefficiently--on old-fashioned pen and paper. But health care doesn't have much spare change to spend on information technology, and the outdated systems that have been installed over the years have only made doctors more skeptical of tech's miracle cures. Billions have been lost trying to use the Net to cut the estimated $250 billion in administrative waste. Investors have been hammered...
Here's a medical pop quiz: Frick and Frack are friends who sport matching spare tires around their waists. Frick goes to Weight Watchers and loses 30 lbs.; Frack goes to the ice-cream parlor and downs a triple banana split every day for a month. So who will live longer? Anybody with a clue about obesity knows that conscientious Frick has lowered his risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and stroke. Frack has done exactly the opposite...
...Stem-cell tissue replacement is half a decade off at least, and nobody knows what unexpected glitches might arise to make the whole idea impossible. Besides, the hazards of true obesity are enormous. But if the research pans out, it may someday be as prudent to carry a modest spare tire around your waist as it is to carry one in the trunk of your...