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...Walkman on and I heard something so loud I shut it off," said Terence P. Mann '96, who was standing outside of Au Bon Pain. "Then there were four guys who ran down Dunster and one guy chasing them...
...there is mounting evidence that even these gadgets may be putting aircraft at risk. A Walkman-type radio tuned to an FM station generates oscillations that can extend 5 ft. to 12 ft. -- far enough, in some planes, to reach the navigation equipment stowed in and around the cockpit. "With their thick wires and vacuum tubes, the old planes probably wouldn't feel a thing," ) says Bruce Nordwall, avionics editor of Aviation Week & Space Technology. "But the low-power circuits in modern aircraft are much more susceptible to interference...
More troubling, from a philosophic standpoint, is the theme of DYSTOPIA that runs like a bad trip through the cyberpunk world view. Gibson's fictional world is filled with glassy-eyed girls strung out on their Walkman-like SIMSTIM DECKS and young men who get their kicks from MICROSOFTS plugged into sockets behind their ears. His brooding, dehumanized vision conveys a strong sense that technology is changing civilization and the course of history in frightening ways. But many of his readers don't seem to care. "History is a funny thing for cyberpunks," says Christopher Meyer, a music-synthesizer designer...
...often seems that the world is getting noisier these days: in Japan, which may be a model of our future, cars and buses have voices, doors and elevators speak. The answering machine talks to us, and for us, somewhere above the din of the TV; the Walkman preserves a public silence but ensures that we need never -- in the bathtub, on a mountaintop, even at our desks -- be without the clangor of the world. White noise becomes the aural equivalent of the clash of images, the nonstop blast of fragments that increasingly agitates our minds. As Ben Okri, the young...
...trademark elliptical phrases are also far more in evidence on this album, with oblique allusions in such lines as "Caligula would have blushed" ("Heaven Knows") and "I know how Joan of Arc felt as the flames rose to her roman nose and her Walkman started to melt ("Bigmouth Strikes Again...