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...power élite as if by right. Nowadays, we champion personal growth. We try to "keep it real." We celebrate diversity. We laugh at the narrow ties and clipped hair of postwar IBM and Ford Motor Co. whiz kids, and lionize instead the untidy entrepreneurialism of high-tech geeks like the young Bill Gates. We disdain order, and we cherish mess. Implicitly, we accept that the incivility and vulgarity which typify messy societies are a worthwhile trade-off for the liberation that such societies allow...
...TECH: Fine-tune your cyberdating; a laddie site; phones that hear better...
...Defining High Tech Columnist Eric Roston explores the question, What is technology anyway...
...head like a virtual noogie. Wireless computing, it dawned on me, was no longer emerging. It's here. The gap between what I cover as a journalist and how I live widens daily. Despite a long-held fascination with the shine and beep of all things high tech, I'm becoming more of a fumbling Luddite. And that's a bummer, because any digiratus will tell you that not only does technology change quickly but the pace at which it changes is accelerating. According to this logic, in 10 years we'll be buying newer models of obsolete gadgets still...
...invisibility" touchstone for high tech is itself quickly becoming obsolete. The stuff coming out of government and corporate R.-and-D. labs is designed to be invisible from the start: "smart dust" distributed in the wind that instantly forms a scattered monitoring network, computer systems that manage computer systems, micro spy cameras designed to look like insects...