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...better off than they were 25 years ago, why all the Depression rhetoric about hard times and strapped budgets? Levy thinks the answer lies in the sluggish paycheck. It's not like the post-World War II period, when the nation's income doubled. Families are living comfortably, and working long hours to do it, but short of turning polygamous in the interest of a third paycheck, they don't see much hope of getting ahead from here...
...better off than they were 25 years ago, why all the Depression rhetoric about hard times and strapped budgets? Levy thinks the answer lies in the sluggish paycheck. It's not like the post-World War II period, when the nation's income doubled. Families are living comfortably, and working long hours to do it, but short of turning polygamous in the interest of a third paycheck, they don't see much hope of getting ahead from here...
...recently as 1985. But even the world's best medicine makes no difference in the end. A surprising truth, which may suggest that geriatrics is still an infant science, is that for people already 65, life expectancy in the U.S. is hardly greater than it is in the Third World...
WHAT HOUSE SPEAKER NEWT GINGRICH THINKS ABOUT the brave new world of technological change can largely be traced back to the works of two best- selling authors: Alvin Toffler, 66, and George Gilder, 55. When Gingrich tosses out such concepts as "the Third Wave" or the "overthrow of matter," when he talks about the "demassification" of U.S. society and the "bottom- up" freedoms created by the personal computer, he is quoting chapter and verse from the ideas of Toffler and Gilder...
...preliminary swell of the third wave is crashing in now: the computer- driven Information Age, when people no longer trudge off to factories or offices but sit at home in "electronic cottages," using their modems and faxes and keyboards to cruise cyberspace. These voluntary shut-ins are not merely customers anymore but "prosumers" using and adding to the daily flow of data. Synergies run rampant. The world is becoming the oyster of computer literates...