Word: techs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When I took my computer to Tech Services for repair, the initial response was discouraging: someone said he wished TPC didn't sell those troublesome Performas...
Over the next three weeks (by then it was October), Tech Services seemingly tried everything. They even rewired my computer's system board. After that, the progress reports ended. when the Tech manager didn't return my calls, I had to go inquire in person. The manager came out and told me that the problem still persisted. "Are you telling me you can't fix it." I asked "Yes, he smiled...
Culture has flourished in the bustle and indrawing of public spaces; it has also defied the marketplace by outlasting initial unpopularities and triumphing in the verdict of history. What will it be like if the arts move exclusively into the privacy of high-tech living rooms? And should it become only a predictable, market-tested commodity, will it even qualify as culture...
Still every Friday and Saturday in the fall, my heart will be back down in Georgia cheering for the Jackets--that's Georgia Tech--and the Tigers, being a part of Football South...
...mail and other tech talk may be the third, fourth or nth wave of the future, but old-fashioned radio is true hyperdemocracy. Very hyper. Like the backyard savants, barroom agitators and soapbox spellbinders of an earlier era, Limbaugh & Co. bring intimacy and urgency to an impersonal age. "If we still gathered at town meetings, if our churches were still community centers," says Marvin Kalb, former CBS reporter who is teaching at George Washington University, "we wouldn't need talk radio. People feel increasingly disconnected, and talk radio gives them a sense of connection...