Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Baker stresses that one should be careful while meeting people on the Web, but she says that for the sincere, there is love in virtual reality...
...about a fellow plucked from obscurity who becomes a star when his life airs live on a 24-hour cable series, and Gary Ross's Pleasantville is about a couple of siblings who get stuck in a '50s sitcom. Shades of Groundhog Day: sophisticated variations of media-bent virtual reality...
With Indonesia aflame, a virtual depression in Japan and both Malaysia and Thailand still struggling, the Asian economic crisis is far from over. In the worst- case scenario, one or more large derivatives defaults from Asia and sets off a chain reaction of failures. In the meantime, Howard Greenspan still awaits information to see if his bank will suffer from the fallout. "In the final analysis, this has little to do with Asia," says Greenspan. "It's derivatives themselves. We are into the age of global financial risk...
...cyberspace? Some 2 million online shoppers--an estimated 15% of all new-car buyers--are flocking to a lengthening list of auto websites to compare makes and models, scout out the best insurance rates and find the nearest dealer with the car in stock. This week autoconnect.com a giant virtual warehouse for used cars, joins a growing pack that includes autobytel.com autoweb.com and Microsoft's carpoint.com...
...cosponsoring, with the American Association of Retired Persons, a series of 500 free seminars around the country to introduce some 50,000 people over age 50 to the brave new world of computers and the Internet. Once online, these "newbies" are expected to start to spend real--not virtual--money...