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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 Military Recruit |
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| According to most reports in the media, the military��셲 biggest personnel problem is a shortage of recruits. The Army fell significantly short of its recruiting targets every month from February through May. It only met its goal for June after it lowered the target. |
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Technology Moves Us |
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| In The Matrix movie trilogy, humans were plugged into a powerful computer that created sensory experiences that existed only in their minds. It appears that the Sony Corporation is quietly working on a project intended to make the Matrix a reality. Five years ago, the Japanese entertainment company filed a patent for a method of firing ultrasound pulses at a person��셲 brain. |
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The New Technology B |
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| There��셲 no question that 2004 was a tremendous year for the consumer electronics industry. Total shipments of U.S. consumer electronic products climbed 11 percent for the year, to $113.5 billion, according to the Consumer Electronics Association. And 2005 is expected to be even bigger, with another 11 percent increase predicted by the association. |
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A New Social Contrac |
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| The implications of the political realignment we��셶e been discussing will be much more pervasive than most people yet realize. Why? Because pressure has been building for a new social contract ever since the realignment of 1968. |
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