Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years, Harvard students have complained about the lack of a big name band, and council officials have responded that on a limited budget, with only a few weeks of warmth and sunshine, scheduling a top band was a virtual impossibility...
Several weeks ago, when I first heard of RSI, I was quick to dismiss it as a '90s phenomenon that could only befall computer addicts, attached to their motherboards by a virtual umbilical cord. Alternatively, I wrote RSI off as a trendy psycho-somatic problem for humanities concentrators desperately in need of an extension...
...Nearby Tiananmen Square--the very heart of the Middle Kingdom, where students had demonstrated in 1919; where Mao had proclaimed a "People's Republic" in 1949 on behalf of the Chinese people who had "stood up"; and where leaders customarily inspect their People's Liberation Army troops--is a virtual monument to People Power in the abstract. Its western edge is taken up by the Great Hall of the People. Its eastern side is dominated by the Museum of Chinese Revolution. The Mao Zedong mausoleum swallows up its southern face...
...problem is that harm is being done. What is lost in all the hype is that virtual reality is just that--virtual. Politicians and lawmakers see the Internet as a mainstream medium; an alternative to contemporary notions of commerce and education. But this is not, nor will it ever be, its function...
...Clock's time is posted on the World Wide Web, and this Web site soon became one of my most frequent places of virtual pilgrimage. But who knew if some scientist, under the crunch of a project deadline, hadn't made a few minor adjustments...