The New York Times Magazine 1996 James Gleick - Abstracts

The New York Times Magazine 1996 James Gleick
TitleSubjectAuthors
1990's. (articles selected from The New York Times Magazine)(A Celebration of One Hundred Years)James Gleick, Philip Weiss, Roger Cohen, Ron Rosenbaum, Howell Raines, Jeffrey Schmalz, Susan Ferraro, Darcy Frey
A sense of where you are: thanks to a constellation of 24 satellites, finding yourself has taken on a whole new meaning. (global positioning system - GPS)(Fast Forward)(Column)James Gleick
Big brother is us: our privacy is disappearing, but not by force. We're selling it, even giving it away. (Behind Closed Doors)(The Next 100 Years)James Gleick
Dead as a dollar. (cash may become obsolete as electronic money takes over)James Gleick
Hall of mirrors: on the Internet, its getting hard to tell the advertisers from the publishers.(Fast Forward)(Column)James Gleick
High-tech Olympics: the race is to the swift - and to the lasers, transponders and accelerometers.(Fast Forward)(Column)James Gleick
Hold the Spam: too many helpings of processed information produce a bad case of E-mail indigestion.(Fast Forward)(Column)James Gleick
I'll take the money, thanks.(copyright protection and online services)(Column)James Gleick
Little bug, big bang: so you think you've had computer problems. (destruction of Europe's giant rocket)(Fast Forward)(Column)James Gleick
Manual labor: as you wander from appliance to appliance, directions in hand, you may feel that there is room for further progress.(Fast Forward)(Column)James Gleick
Oh-oh: according to some year 2000 specialists, the first tick of the new millennium will set off apocalyptic computer chaos.(Fast Foward)(Column)James Gleick
Take my e-mail, please: on-line humor is the ultimate extension of office and barroom humor.(Fast Forward)(Column)James Gleick
The spider's stratagem. (robots called Spidey and Scooter may help users pinpoint information on the World Wide Web)(Fast Forward)(Column)James Gleick
Vertical reality: if not for elevators, we could have 500-story buildings.(Fast Forward)(Column)James Gleick
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