Word: teche
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Many Internet service providers offer filtering services. But because of the need to appeal to the largest audience, they may go much further in their proscriptions than some parents would want. Amy Bruckman, a computer-science professor at Georgia Tech, points out that "a lot of these filtering companies are not making clear what their values are, their method for deciding what is acceptable and what is not." That's why it's so important to buy a filter that can be tuned to your family's values...
...usefully applied to the discussion of RSIs at Harvard. One of the central RSI mysteries is its reputation as a strictly Harvard problem. Last year, even as the least fatalistic Harvard undergraduates began to resign themselves to the inevitability of voice-activation software and scribes (a combination of high-tech wizardry and ancient luxury that did have a certain appeal), it was hard to ignore the fact that our long-distance boyfriends and high school roommates and co-salutatorians attending other similarly stressful and high-powered colleges had never heard of it. Even Harvard students had trouble believing they were...
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...stocks will re-emerge as market leaders later this spring, following a wide pullback. If he's right, the fuddy-duddies may at last celebrate for a good long while--if, that is, by then they haven't joined everyone else and plunked their savings on the same five tech stocks...