Word: utopia
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...left-wing journalist Christopher Hitchens complained in the Nation that in their haste to point the finger at the U.S., some of the antiwarriors dismissed the fact that what the terrorists want is not a liberal ideal of global justice but the despot's utopia of religious extremism. "The bombers of Manhattan represent fascism with an Islamic face," Hitchens wrote. "What they abominate about 'the West'...is its emancipated women, its scientific inquiry, its separation of religion from the state...
...futon), this is a company with high hopes of meeting the transportation needs of every urban dweller by supplementing the subway and bus systems. The rental group plans to expand its operations to New York City in the near future and eventually create its vision of utopia: cities with few privately owned vehicles...
...seek illusions, especially in the tech world. Everything in this new Utopia is a lot more fragile than it seems on the surface, as any ex-dotcommer will tell you. But that's what happens when you construct an environment for analog-minded humans made entirely of ones and zeros. Take all those MP3s you downloaded or ripped from your CDs, for example. You think you're hearing the music as it was originally intended? You're not. MP3s are built on something called psycho-acoustic algorithms. These little beauties save a ton of file space by making your brain...
Maybe some were tricked into coming out West, goaded on by the same visions of utopia that I was. Or maybe some were here before the gold rush, saw the roller-coaster ride pass them by and now are just trying to pick up the pieces. Or at least trying to understand why they couldn’t have been one of the lucky few to make it big. What really matters, though—and what is so easy to overlook—is no one party or group is to blame: everyone here probably had something...
...came up with the “new economy ad” no longer works here. No, he wasn’t fired, but about three weeks into my summer, he decided to pack his bags and return to Apple. I can only fathom that the fantasy utopia still lives on there, in ultra-hip advertising and candy colored computer shells...