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...looked good -- if you discount the "boggle" factor. This is a psychological effect Stewart Brand describes in The Media Lab, his 1987 book about M.I.T.'s cutting-edge research facility. It's a sensation familiar to anyone who has spent a day at a high-tech trade show or an hour with a fast- talking computer salesman. Too much happens too fast. There is too much hand waving, too many new things with new names. "The potential for being bamboozled," writes Brand, "is total...
When it comes to organization, however, the troops go high-tech. The militia movement, says Berlet, "is probably the first national movement organized and directed on the information highway." Patriot talk shows, such as The Informed Citizen, a half-hour program broadcast on public-access TV in Northern California, spread the word that American values are under attack from within and without. Militias also communicate via the Patriot Network, a system of linked computer bulletin boards, and through postings in news groups on the Internet. One recent posting by a group calling itself the Pennsylvania Militia, more specifically...
...like Mr. Bloodworth and Ms. Clarke with their preference for Black-solidarist cathartic activism, I persist in articulating to such Black students here at Harvard College what I believe to be a more viable mode of Black-individual and Black-group metamorphosis in our complex post-Capitalist (e.g., Hi-Tech Capitalist, Global Capitalist, etc.) era. Namely--translate your strong cathartic appetite into a strong outreach-to-Black-poor ethos; into an activist healing-hand value orientation that focuses on the manifold crises of cultural life and societal life among our African-American poor (e.g., male violence against women, male neglect...
...hooray! Texas Tech (6-5) is going to the Mobil Cotton Bowl Classic, but they won their conference, and 6-4-1 Notre Dame's playing in the IBM/OS2 Fiesta Bowl is also a joke...
...telephone industry may be at increased risk of dying from cancer, according to a new report. The risk varies with age, race and job ! title; those at greatest danger appear to be engineers, technicians and office workers ages 25 to 50. A possible explanation: above-average exposure to high- tech equipment...