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...proliferation of communication-gadgets-cum-appendages has profoundly increased the speed at which we all operate. With the aid of our ubiquitous laptops and cell phones, the viral circulation rate of cultural memes never ceases to amaze (within four days, no less than 21 million viewers had paid witness to Susan Boyle’s on-stage coup d’état). The more fundamental change, however, has come in the content, volume, and sources from which we glean our information. The scope and depth of answerable academic questions has broadened dramatically with the advent of digitized databases...
...American youth plagued by generational ADD. After observing a teenager’s impatience with the sloth of text messaging, comedian Louis CK commented wryly, “Your message is going to space. Give it a second.” Moreover, our vocabulary has come to reflect the speed at which our words are spoken and sent: Since we “obvi” don’t have time for those extra two syllables, our new bevy of “abbrevs” can sometimes be pretty “egreg” (egregious for those...
...Such observations would prove prescient. Lewis calls the exponential growth in computer speed and processing “astonishing.” Speaking of the trajectory from personal computer squabbles to Internet freedom of information fights, he says, “right now we’re in as much a state of turmoil with that as we were 25 years ago with the question of what to do with these personal devices.” He adds, however, that, “this will all be settled in 25 years...
...Some of these, I have done. Others, I hope one day, or in the next day or two, to do, and do it hard. 1. Build a sled and slide down Widener steps. This is great for many reasons: one, sledding kicks ass, two, snow rules, and three, speed is way better than not-speed. Special challenge time: use a HUDS Dining Hall tray instead of a sled. Super challenge time: build the sled entirely out of beer. 2. Pretend you’re really attractive and funny and sensitive, and get a really pretty, sweet girl to fall...
...poll result may do little to speed things up, in fact. "The elections have not made any impact whatsoever. Everything that was will remain the same, they were just a game," says Alexei Malashenko, a scholar-in-residence at Moscow's Carnegie Institute. He points out that Kokoity has not only the support of his own Unity party, but also that of the only other two parties in South Ossetia's 34-seat legislature, the communists and the People's Party. The only democratic opposition is outside parliament altogether...