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...Even in an age humming with electronic innovation, the new takes its baby steps in the boot prints of the old. Many of the cyber-knickknacks on our Tech 10 Best are binary clones of old friends. PayPal is the next Western Union; the Nikon Coolpix 900 is the spawn of the Brownie. Nike will customize your sneakers, just the way your "artistic" aunt did for your eighth birthday. And Napster: free access to worlds of music! It used to be called radio...
Shannon Mahaffey's experience is a case in point. He was living in Sweetwater, on the flat Texas plains that spawn tornadoes during the spring storm season. Often he would stay up nights watching the horizon as twisters cut deadly swaths nearby. Twice, he says, they touched down on his property, tearing up fences and farm equipment, though luckily missing his house. One night, while waiting up in a storm-induced blackout, he wondered whether there was a better way to warn people that a twister was forming: "I knew that the one thing that always worked in the disasters...
This push for a more diverse workforce has helped spawn several outside firms that help employers connect with potential employees...
Breakfast the next morning at the Hotel Koryo was a treat. Pickled pollack spawn - a brown spiced salty fishy paste - and other delicacies were laid out on the buffet. The room had a mirrored ceiling, a fluorescent painting, two scary ceramic dancing pigs on the buffet table and very loud, saccharine Korean love songs coming over the PA. Guests sat alone in the middle of the room surrounded by six bow-tied waiters...
...there is hope. After all, we do know a lot of one thing and a little bit of everything. That coupled with our impending financial success means we should at least be able to do some good: donate five billion dollars to charity or spawn a couple of presidents. Maybe then our parents will actually be proud of us. If not, we can at least make our Boomer parents proud grandparents and stick a copy of Walden in our kids' lunchboxes...