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Technology shifts can be wrenching, but it's not as if telcos and their suppliers didn't know that wireless would eventually prevail in telephony. Yet unlike their new and younger rivals, Nortel, Lucent and other wire-line-equipment powers have found it difficult to take market share in next-generation technologies such as Internet telephony and wireless broadband. Recession has served, as it often does, to fast-forward a power struggle that promises to reshape forever how we communicate and consume media...
...introduction of laptops and wireless Internet into the classroom environment has allowed us to prioritize our time in a highly pragmatic way. No longer are the choices in class between doodling in a notebook and paying attention; now we have an entire workstation at our fingertips. We can e-mail, organize, and update away while a professor is explaining easy or boring material that presumably doesn’t warrant full attention...
...best antidote to the rise of viral activity during class time would be to pull the plug on wireless internet in classes in which it is not academically necessary. This would inevitably upset many students. However, such a reaction would only prove the degree to which zoning out in class thanks to technology is ingrained in the way we spend our class time. Such paternalism may not be the answer, but certainly something has to change. After all, the lecture hall is beginning to resemble Lamont Café, without the lattes. Anita J Joseph ’12, a Crimson...
...Frederiksberg University Hospital in Copenhagen looks like any other hospital in the developed world, except for one notable absence: there are no clipboards. Instead, doctors and nurses carry wireless handheld computers to call up the medical records of each patient, including their prescription history and drug allergies. If a doctor prescribes a medication that may cause complications, the computer's alarm goes off. In the hospital's department of acute medicine - where patients often arrive unconscious or disorientated - department head Klaus Phanareth's PDA prevents him from prescribing dangerous medications "on a weekly basis," he says. "There's no doubt...
...held. These are the most rejuvenating months that I’ve experienced in my career in a long time. 2. FM: Do you think that a lot has changed since you were in college? HAZ: Society at that point wasn’t so interconnected with wireless technology. A term paper was typed on a typewriter so it wasn’t just cut and paste. And also, people went to libraries for reference, rather than to just study. You’d spend hours sitting in the stacks.3. FM: Have you had a chance...