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Remember how hard you prayed in March? Please, God, give me just one little rally in tech stocks. I'll sell what I have left, I swear, and never again commit the sins of underdiversification and speculation. Well, you can throw that pledge on the scrap heap of desperate promises never kept. Tech is torrid. Again. You want in. Again. Yet this could turn into Bubble II, a sequel with nearly as much punch as the original. That's not what anyone wants to hear after a yearlong, tech-led bust that wiped out $5.2 trillion of stock-market wealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Get Fooled... | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...burst from enthusiasm - believes the upcoming sixth-generation MA will appeal to "prosumers," the professionals who embraced the first Palm handhelds. "Those guys will show the way for the rest of the consumers," he says. Newman doesn't know this, but he's talking about me: I still swear by my old Palm Pilot. Would I buy a wearable? Yes, if it weighs less than a kilo, costs less than $1,500 and - as cool as I felt at that Fairfax mall - doesn't make me look like a Borg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watch and Wear | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...Smart talking objects will not be allowed to swear, harass or call humans names unless it is clear that those humans deserve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Proposed United Nations Treaty on Human to Smart Object Interrelations | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...into a room, dish about the nominees, air out their dirty laundry and eventually settle on compromise candidates. It all sounds very noble, but inevitably ends up turning into a vituperative venting of insecurities, an exercise in exorcising. (Sample justification for rejecting a candidate—and I swear this is verbatim from a recent election: “I just don’t think she has the intellectual capacity to be a vice president of this organization.”) True, it is often quite satisfying to see the world in this light—to have that...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, | Title: Self-Righteous Rejection | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...Cleavage SOME OTHER PRIMATE SPECIES SWEAR...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

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