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| In 2001, an unknown 38-year-old academic named Edward Castronova was teaching at Cal State University in Fullerton, California, and feeling like a failure. His career had never gone anywhere, and he felt like he was at a dead end. He was so lonely at night he just sat around and played video games. |
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The Brave New World |
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| One of the long-held dreams of medical science is to find drugs that will increase intelligence and boost brain performance, aid concentration, and generally give us more control over thought, memory, and cognitive functioning. Some scientists now believe that the dream isn��셳 far from reality. |
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The Age of Watching |
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| Back in the early 1990s, a company called Tele-TV tried to launch a new service: television programs delivered over telephone lines. The first problem was that their technology wasn��셳 ready for prime time. It was still pretty much dream-ware in 1993. |
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The On-Line Advertis |
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| In the golden age of television, companies that wanted to make a major impact created what was called a 諭몂adblock??they advertised at the same precise time on all three networks to ensure that anyone watching television at that moment would have to watch their message. |
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Inflation Remains a |
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| Many Americans assume that inflation is rising. They fear that the recent increase in commodity prices will lead to higher finished goods producer prices and then higher consumer prices. This fear is intensified because people tend to notice when prices go up for products they buy most often.
As economist A. Gary Shilling points out in a recent commentary, such ��쐗idespread fears of inflation are understandable. Historically, inflation is a wartime phenomenon when government spending is huge, while deflation reigns in peacetime. Still, the nation suffered a uniquely long 60 years of war, which started with rearmament in the late 1930s, was followed by World War II, which promptly gave way to the Cold War that was augmented by the War on Poverty. So, most Americans have never experienced anything but inflation, which they believe is the way God made the world.��� |
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