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...Delveccio and Karamchandani’s program meant more than a sex change—and a lot more curves. Their improved shuttle savior had tons of techno-savvy...
...that resurfaced in 1991 was dramatically different from what audiences were used to. Their sound was infused with synthesizers and techno-based drum beats, while their tours were large-scale spectacles that expanded to the $250,000-per-day multimedia extravaganza of the 1997 PopMart tour, complete with a lemon-shaped spaceship that carried the band on stage. U2 was trying to create the next generation of music and performance by utilizing the technology...
...computer system so bad? The bureau?s techno-phobia was one problem, as was an almost religious adherence to tradition. Of course, no one was helped by perennially bad decision-making by bureaucrats who are, for the most part, clueless about the leaps being made in information technology. "When the Bureau began its "computerization" in the mid-1980s, we were operating with very limited funding and the belief that we could do everything we needed to do with in-house talent," John Sennett, head of the FBI Agents Association, wrote in a recent e-mail gently admonishing his members...
Assumption: Technology makes it possible for us to do more. Conclusion (of the business titans driving the techno-revolution): to fulfill our human mission, we must...
...this recreational multitasking is not only a technical change but an assault on the very couch-potato philosophy of leisure, which I hereby dub chaise-pomme-de-terrisme. In today's productivity-minded, techno-Puritan culture, you are a sloth and a loser if you aren't doing at least two things at all times: making a cell-phone call while checking messages on your Blackberry, checking stock quotes while making love to your partner, and so on. It's strange to think of watching the tube as a throwback to a simpler, more contemplative day, but that's what...