Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...them sooner than even these visionaries imagine. Within the next few weeks, in Kyoto, Japan, an ecobiologist and radically bottom-up computer theorist named Tom Ray will initiate an open-ended experiment he calls a "digital biodiversity reserve." A single, tiny, self-reproducing program will be loosed into a "virtual Internet" spread among hundreds of computers around the world. If all goes as earlier trial runs suggest, Ray's artificial "organisms" will quickly populate the network and begin to evolve...
...Washington, offers 100 different Websites; they range from museums of classic autos to home pages for dealers who pay a one-time $14,000 fee to join up. Not to be outdone, General Motors launched a site last month http://www.gm.com/ that lets shoppers take the wheel of four virtual models and go for a virtual spin...
...Robert J. Dole (R-Kan.) easily won contests in Texas, Florida and four other Southern states yesterday to gain a virtual lock on the Republican presidential nomination. In victory, he reached out to his remaining rivals and said it was time to "put our ideas together" to beat President Clinton...
...process of brewing coffee. That was the date that The Spot, the first serial drama designed specifically for the Internet, made its debut. But the Net's first narrative-driven vehicle did not venture into the mysteries of science fiction. Nor did it relate any apocalyptic fantasies about virtual militiamen. Instead it offered the lifeblood of housewives in terry-cloth slippers: a sexed-up daytime serial...
Four years ago, Bill Clinton got a big boost when a group of Silicon Valley's captains announced their support for him over George Bush. Now, however, cyberexecutives are considering any campaign drive for Clinton to be, well, a virtual goner. Dismissing Clinton's info-superhighway pep talks as showboating, the industry is focusing on a menu of grievances, including increased corporate taxes, burdensome accounting-reform proposals and, most of all, Clinton's failed veto of a law making it easier for companies to prevail in securities-fraud lawsuits. Silicon Valley successfully pressed for a congressional override, maintaining that...