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...article "Is Technology Moving Too Fast?" Stewart Brand wrote, "Radical new technologies are often seen as moral threats by conservative and religious groups." Indeed, many religious myths have depended on static dogmas for their survival. As science and technology move forward at an ever accelerating pace, the faith of the true believer is stretched to the limit as, one by one, the sacred mysteries of life are peeled away, making it ever more difficult to hide from the terrifying truth that all we have in this universe is ourselves. JAMES M. RIDGWAY JR. Tucson, Ariz...
...valuable service," says Eric Scheirer, a media and Internet analyst at Forrester Research. "And as long as it is, there will always be ways to monetize it." What's more, anonymous systems like Freenet are inherently vulnerable. "The record companies could flood Freenet with a million copies of static," Scheirer suggests, "and title them The New Britney Spears Song...
...mention a major union strike. But don't worry; it probably won't come to that. The American public will never let you get away with this. They know that daily exposure to stilted dialogue is every bit as much a God-given right as access to a static-free cell phone with unlimited local calls...
...that the brain can, in fact, be actively rewired. "For years there's been hope that you can retrain the brain," says TIME medical correspondent Christine Gorman. As our understanding of the brain becomes more sophisticated, Gorman explains, we get further from the erroneous idea that the brain is static, or fixed. "Now we know that tasks like learning a language or playing a new instrument change the brain," Gorman says. And although the stroke therapy remains experimental, it offers renewed hope for even more dramatic and practical discoveries down the road...
Richard noted that one benefit of distance learning technologies is a reexamination of learning and teaching methods in colleges, which have remained static and unchallenged for the last 30 or 40 years...