Word: wiredness
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Perhaps so, but the new predators have some catching up to do. Fewer than 300 U.S. banks have set up Internet sites. Most analysts give the holdouts four years to either get wired or get left far behind. Consumers can already pay bills and check balances through computer networks like...
It doesn't look like much of a marvel. If anything, it appears to be just a bunch of ordinary personal computers, a couple of feet high, wired together and left running in a corner. But stored on disks in these machines is an extraordinary medical cornucopia: the details of...
Once that kind of intelligence is wired into a computer, the next logical step is connecting the system to the outside world. In fact, "tele-medicine," as doctors refer to a range of such long-distance ministrations, is the latest buzz in medical technology. The idea is simple enough: doctors...
Some 3.2 million school-age children--and growing numbers of adults--have their crooked teeth wired to grow straight. Orthodontists now use a nickel-titanium alloy, developed for the space program, to hold braces together. The new wire is more flexible and longer lasting than earlier materials, which means fewer...
The news echoed dully across Usenet last week, like the sound of a body being dropped to the floor. It traveled first from Finland across the Net and then bounced instantly to wired people everywhere in the world. If you like, you can experience that doomed moment yourself--it's...