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Word: therings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Not that an interstate full of delivery trucks will spell the death of your mall. "People will go shopping in stores as a social activity," predicts high-tech guru Esther Dyson, but "there may be a lot of showrooms and fewer places where you actually take things home." Should you...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FutureShop: Web-Free Shopping | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

And if you really don't want to walk away from your PC, the Web will still be there. Watch for more gee-whiz applications to draw you into retail websites, like the virtual dressing rooms at eddiebauer.com and boo.com or furniture.com's floor-planning program.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FutureShop: Web-Free Shopping | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

There were a few hitches. Everything had to come from the Internet, no going to the store, and I would have to write about it. There's no such thing as a free dinner.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dinner @ Margaret's | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

There is no grocery website that delivers to my ZIP code, so fresh vegetables are hard to come by--thank goodness. I find the very sight of raw broccoli and cauliflower on a buffet table dispiriting. I don't go to parties looking to balance my diet with the four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dinner @ Margaret's | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

At this point, I realized I needed a real-life Jeeves. Who better to serve food with snootiness sufficient to obscure its Internet provenance? Ironically, my virtual Jeeves couldn't produce a human one. He did tell me of a school in the Netherlands where I could "learn the true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dinner @ Margaret's | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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