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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Beyond the pseudo-Utopian predictions of far-reaching Internet usage lie the technical specifications of Dyson's treatise. A Harvard graduate with a degree in economics who subsequently worked as a reporter for Forbes magazine and followed high-tech stocks as a securities analyst on Wall Street, Dyson possesses an impressive amount of practical experience with which to substantiate her conceptions. One of the most innovative suggestions she makes concerns the mass mailings of junk e-mail sent through the Net. Her plan to curb this "spamming" involves the use of "sender-pays" e-mail, wherein the recipient would...

Author: By Andrea H. Kurtz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: How I Stopped Fretting and Learned to Love the Net | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

That set the stage for the toughest challenge yet in the form of the Marchetti brothers from Virginia Tech...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Blake Brothers Storm Rolex | 11/13/1997 | See Source »

...were to let the study of Classics wither away, or the study of Sanskrit fade into oblivion, what would be next? Archaeology? The Renaissance? Buddhism? Or perhaps the Industrial Revolution, which in today's high-tech information age might strike some people as something close to ancient history?" Rudenstine asked...

Author: By Matthew W. Granade, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Rudenstine Defends Need-Based Aid Before Commission | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

...before Biggs had finished spraying lighter fluid. Within minutes I heard traders tell me everything from "Biggs thinks this is the end" to "Biggs says get out now because the market's gonna crash today." No matter that Biggs had been wrong before, including a devastating get-out-of-tech call right at the bottom in 1996. Biggs has clout; he could do damage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHAT IT WAS LIKE AT GROUND ZERO | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

Welcome to the retrofuture. It's a time when they're fighting a high-tech intergalactic war but talking about it in the kind of lowbrow rhetoric--hysterical jingoism--we haven't heard issuing from movie screens since World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ALL BUGGED OUT, AGAIN | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

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