Word: users
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...demon flower. This is just the facts, ma'am, a fogie's guide to Xanadu. Grinspoon has collected and synthesized a great deal of information, and he gives ample to time to the anti-weed agenda. The author quotes a few scary tidbits from the FBI: "He [the user] becomes a fiend with savage or 'cave man' tendencies. His sex desires are aroused and some of the most horrible crimes result..." Horrible crimes, not the least of which were Dingo boots, halter tops and the Average White Band...
Lewin read the file and documented gross violations of user privacy--he was able to identify students and faculty who downloaded pornographic images...
...idea is to stuff as much information and as many communications tools as possible into a small package -- called a personal digital assistant, or PDA - - that will perform dozens of tasks for the user. More advanced versions, weighing less than 2 lbs., can operate off a regular phone line or cellular connection and send and receive faxes, voice mail or E-mail. They can be used to keep appointment schedules, expense ledgers, addresses and phone numbers, as well as large digitized documents...
...example, will weed out even technically feasible devices if they prove too complicated for the average consumer to use. For the next decade at least, the key to the consumer's heart will be less in the technology itself than in the masking of technology to make it more user-friendly...
...promises to change the way business does business. Some 3 million employees of U.S. companies already telecommute, performing all or part of their work away from their offices, and their numbers are increasing some 20% every year. The trend is likely to accelerate with the arrival of newer, more user- friendly technology designed specifically for mobile employees -- or ``road warriors,'' as they are called. The impact could be profound, and not necessarily all for the good. For one thing, managers and workers will have to make difficult psychological and social adjustments. For another, restructuring is sure to produce some unexpected...