Word: techs
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...future creation." As he sees the process, two of the futurists' most potent tools are terror and exclusivity. "They put their clients in a state of fear and then explain that they hold the secret knowledge that can save them," says Rushkoff, whose own shrewd brand of high-tech utopianism earns the 34-year-old New Yorker six-figure book advances and up to $7,500 an hour strategizing for the likes of the Sony Corp., Telecommunications Inc. and Interval Research...
Nobody propagandizes for the future more enthusiastically these days than Wired magazine, the four-year-old glossy compendium of new-media prognostication and high-tech fetishism. Even as it was loudly fueling the public frenzy for new-media stocks and entrepreneurs, however, Wired was quietly affiliated with a Bay Area outfit called the Global Business Network, which garners annual revenues of some $6 million writing scenarios of the digital future for corporate clients. The ties between the two institutions run deep, and later this month Wired Ventures Ltd.--several of whose chief stockholders are GBN partners--plans a public stock...
...first place, hope to cash in as well. To that end, FutureNet is talking with cable and broadcast channels and several Fortune 20-size companies about financial backing and developmental partnerships. The Tofflers have also recruited as executive partners TV producer Al Burton (Charles in Charge) and the tech-savvy film producer and entrepreneur Jeff Apple (In the Line of Fire). The tone of FutureNet's offerings, Toffler says, will be "not just for the digerati and not heavy. After all," he laughs, "it's television...
After spending a night last week at the Century Plaza Hotel's "Cyber Suite" in Los Angeles, Bob Dole could conceivably be reconsidering his plans to move into the ordinary White House. Filled with every imaginable high-tech gadget and computer-controlled indulgence, this $2,000-a-night, 2,000-sq.-ft. hotel room, unveiled in June, is a temple to technological excess. Guests can draw a bath, close the drapes, dim the lights or crank up the stereo simply by speaking commands into the Cyber Suite's electronic "Butler in a Box." There's a fully wired wide-screen...
...while sci-fi may never fully shed its dweeby image, the reality has evolved along with the rest of pop culture. Readers can choose from a wide array of subgenres, including Tolkienesque fantasy, high-tech cyberpunk, horror sci-fi, feminist sci-fi, techno-thriller sci-fi, gay and lesbian sci-fi and even sci-fi erotica. Readership and authorship have broadened too: women now account for a third of the science-fiction audience, compared with just 10% in the '50s, and such writers as Ursula Le Guin and Octavia E. Butler (one of sci-fi's few African-American authors...