Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Technology silliness
THE day I saw Tom Cruise waving his arms to manipulate video images on a transparent glass monitor in the 2002 science fiction movie Minority Report was the day I realized I had become a technological reactionary. While others were going, “Cool,” I was thinking, “What a waste of computing cycles.” As I watched Cruise “grab” hold of one screen with both hands and dramatically fling it away to discard it, I thought, “I can do the same thing much faster by clicking the close button on an application window.”
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Monday, June 04, 2007
Brave new world
THE place isn’t even five years old, but technology giants such as IBM, Microsoft, Dell and Sun Microsystems already maintain sprawling, futuristic offices there. They are joined by the likes of Adidas, Calvin Klein, Coca-Cola, Sony BMG, Toyota and General Motors. Media outfits such as the British Broadcasting Corp., Sky News and Reuters operate out of the area, as do a number of US federal agencies. Last month, Sweden became the first country to establish an embassy there. The place doesn’t exist in the real world but in cyberspace. It’s called Second Life, a 3-D virtual world on the Internet built by Linden Labs.
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