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...systems and more willing than ever to go to court. This year Silicon Valley celebrated a landmark prosecution in which, after four years, Avant Corp. and seven of its current and former executives were forced to pay $220 million in fines and restitution for stealing secrets from a rival tech firm. Avant got information by paying off an engineer from the targeted firm...
Think of them as Big Mother. Though they don't actually practice medicine, companies like American Healthways use the Internet and other high-tech equipment to keep track of your vital statistics and your treatment, reminding you to take your medicine or schedule a follow-up exam with the doctor. On rare occasions, and at the last minute, they might even drive you to, say, a dialysis clinic if no other options are available...
...seek illusions, especially in the tech world. Everything in this new Utopia is a lot more fragile than it seems on the surface, as any ex-dotcommer will tell you. But that's what happens when you construct an environment for analog-minded humans made entirely of ones and zeros. Take all those MP3s you downloaded or ripped from your CDs, for example. You think you're hearing the music as it was originally intended? You're not. MP3s are built on something called psycho-acoustic algorithms. These little beauties save a ton of file space by making your brain...
...will offer a powerful mix of full-service manufacturing, from low-end components to high-end finished products. It will make everything from glucose meters to computer printers and cellular base stations. In any given week, its anonymous factories will produce as many as 5 million units of high-tech gadgetry--all bearing other companies' names...
...energy-cable businesses, in order to focus on telecommunications, high-tech cables, fiber optics and telecom services...