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...early days of the computer age, while her colleagues were building faster microchips and experimenting with artificial intelligence, M.I.T. professor Sherry Turkle was asking what the tech revolution meant for the people caught up in it. In her book The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit, she explored such questions as whether hackers were victims of stunted emotional development. In Life on the Screen, she pondered whether a sexual assault of one player by another in an online game is in any way a "real" rape...
...state-of-the-art swimming venue, and the largely Australian crowd is having a grand time breaking it in. From the outside, the Center looks like a white winged creature sprouting from the ground. Inside, its steeply sloped seats pack in 17,500. It's wonderfully high-tech - the pool is especially deep and designed for minimum wakes and maximum speed. Cameras record every angle, from the one that tracks along the ceiling to the one that follows the swimmers from under water...
...strength of the linebackers is critical as the Crimson defense places a premium on stopping the run and rushing the passer, lining up in a Virginia Tech-style "Attack Eight" front...
...Turner spent 1999 coaching the offensive line at Louisiana Tech, which had the top passing attack in the nation last year, averaging over 402 yards per game...
...seems America's kids are spending far too much time in front of a screen and too little learning how to interact with other human beings. In a statement that probably left many in the high tech industry shuddering with fear, the Alliance called for a moratorium on computers in elementary school classrooms. The group calls instead on reading and creative group play to help students develop the skills they need in and out of school...