Word: wiredness
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As an article of faith, it's touching. As a core principle of the wired age--the free-flow of information--it's the one thing that holds our vision of this complex character together. And if it doesn't always work out in reality as Gates the author imagines...
Satellite and other types of high-speed wireless technologies would seem to offer hope for spanning great distances and reaching the thinly wired. Indeed, the cost of downloading Web pages via a rooftop satellite dish is falling. Hughes' DirecPC dish now sells for as little as $299, with monthly service...
Oh, baby, it's a wired world.
Talk about back to the future. Ma Bell wants to be your sole communications provider again, just 15 years after regulators broke up AT&T's telephone monopoly. A major difference this go-round is that there's no monopoly. Another difference is that we're talking about much more...
Homework in the future may not be any less laborious, but it will certainly be more wired. And as more children gain access to computers and the Net--75% of teens and 47% of kids ages 2 to 12 are expected to be online by 2002--schools and technology companies...