Word: xeroxing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...horrendous crime to make a Xerox of someone," argues author and science critic Jeremy Rifkin. "You're putting a human into a genetic straitjacket. For the first time, we've taken the principles of industrial design--quality control, predictability--and applied them to a human being...
...about where the world is heading." He won't even cop a plea to the charge that Microsoft tends to react to competitors' ideas--the graphical interface of Apple, the Web browser of Netscape--more than it blazes new trails of its own. "Graphical interfaces were done first at Xerox, not Apple. We bet on them early on, which is why Microsoft Office applications became the best...
...these defiant early believers stayed with the church, whose devotees spent much of the next millennium obsessively copying and recopying their sacred texts. It was a brutally inefficient process. Cloistered Benedictines toiled for years in musty scriptoriums, transcribing copy after copy of the Bible into leatherbound books. This medieval Xerox system was painfully low-tech: a monk would slowly copy from exemplar Latin Bibles as he and his brothers inked and gilded lavishly illustrated pages at the rate of roughly...
...name, O'Brien is a sponsor's delight, with his radiant good looks--coppery skin, sculpted 6-ft. 2-in., 185-lb. body with an unimaginable 3% of body fat--and affable nature. He already has deals to the tune of $600,000 with Foot Locker, Visa, Ray Ban, Xerox, Juice Bowl and Fuji Film, with bonuses that kick in if he wins the gold...
...early summer, and the two spend their spare time watching videos in the spacious home he built last year. Still, easygoing, accessible and sociable, O'Brien cannot help offering a piece of himself to all who come calling. His lawyer needs to talk to him about a Xerox deal and how to get tickets to the Games. A radio station wants to interview him, as does a reporter working on a story about O'Brien's mom. His coaches, in the manner of tough-talking coaches everywhere, like to grumble about all the extra hurdles. As Sloan says when...