Word: wiredness
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The pressure to be wired - everywhere, always, fast - is hard to ignore. Not long ago I went to see the Celtics play the Jazz at Boston's Fleet Center. I wanted to experience ChoiceSeat, one of the new-generation computers that U.S. sports arenas are installing to give fans an...
On the northern edge of Georgia, where the Hiawassee River rushes out of the Smoky Mountains, natural beauty keeps close company with human poverty. A winding, hour-long drive from the nearest interstate highway, Towns County is one of Georgia's poorest and most isolated localities, where the average annual...
It's a deeply cynical way to behave, but then again presidential commissions have often been designed with this kind of hard-wired cynicism. Naming a group to look at a problem allows presidents to be concerned without being committed. By the time the commission actually reports the issue may...
Yes and no. It's not a PC, but rather a microcomputer, a "Simple Inexpensive Mobile Computer." In short, a Simputer. It's the latest attempt to reach a kind of techno-humanist grail: a computer priced and designed for the billions of people who have yet to set foot...
The Simputer is a still-awkward (though highly anticipated) child of Indian humanism and technology. Its future depends on how well it is nurtured, by investment, by improvement, by acceptance. But for the moment it is one of the best tools the developing world has to get wired. Dr. Muhammad...