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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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On-Line Advertising |
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| Just a few short years ago, before the dot-com crash, any Web site with lots of visitors was thought to be a money machine for advertisers. BlueMountain.com, a greeting card company with 11 million visitors a month, sold for $780 million, even though it had no revenues. But, shortly after the crash, you couldn’t give those eyeballs away, and until recently the industry consensus was that there was little if any value in advertising on the Internet. |
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The Battle for Wirel |
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| A broadband connection has become more and more essential to every aspect of our lives, whether at work, or at home, or on the road. People are becoming so dependent on it that the next obvious step is to have a wireless connection everywhere. And that’s what we’ve been promised for some time now. |
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Voice Recognition Is |
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| Voice recognition software has been around for a long time but, according to Computing1 magazine, the number of potential users far outnumbers the actual users. |
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| During the 1970s, humanity was three decades removed from the last World War, and modern medicine seemed capable of conquering one killer disease after another. The world’s birth rates and fertility rates continued their upward climb, as they had for the past seven centuries. Projecting the growth in the population, experts at the time warned of an unavoidable disaster. |
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