...ctor can be constrained to collapse to the most order-enhancing event. If we had a computer the size of the Universe that could infallibly model it... ...have been compared to the latest technological innovation in every generation. The computer metaphor is now in vogue. Computer hardware metaphors w... ... "brain-children", the results of "brain-storming", conceived by "minds". What is a computer, a software application, a communications network if no... ...o be corrupt should be minimized by liberalizing and deregulating the economy. Red tape should be minimized, licensing abolished, international tra... ...es. They will haul their world with them as they move about. The miniaturization of storage devices will permit them to carry whole libraries of dat... ...e dynamic of these markets is self-reinforcing. Faster computers with more massive storage, speedier data transfer ("pipeline"), and networking ca... ...he printed page. The latter is still the most ingenious medium yet invented for the storage and release of textual information. Granted: a computer ... ... are so..."). They mourn the autochthonous inability to act decisively, to cut red tape, to manufacture quality, to open to the world, to be less ... ...print for a computing device with one "ideal" exception: its unbounded memory (the tape is infinite). Despite its hardware appearance (a read/write...

...ureau ofIndian Mfairs for the State of Washington. But the bureaucracy, the red tape, and the Federal indifference to the plight of the reservation ... ... for­ mally. "Yes. Richard Hawk, I have a reservation." The clerk typed on the computer keyboard next to his elbow. "Yes, Mr. Hawk," he said withou... ...ss­ man, he walked over to an attractive looking woman typing rhythmically on a computer. After a moment, she looked up and managed what Richard con... .... "Have a seat. Ms. Matloch will see you shortly," she said, re­ turning to the computer. Hawk sat on a deep cushioned sofa and nervously skipped t... ...implacable, with stone faces. Robert Brent stopped taking notes and turned on a tape record­ er. He wanted his complete focus on Richard Hawk, the ma... ...ed at his watch, his prized actors would be arriving soon. The meeting would be taped and expertly edited, so that not even the best computers avail... ...pointed out that all of the symptom sites were in the vicinity of nuclear waste storage facilities." "You think these dumpsites are the cause of the... ...ide, there isn't enough money in the U.S. Treasury to clean up fourteen nuclear storage sites, let alone one like Hanford." "You said two reasons."... ...ery geographic area that sur- 13:l Johnathan Cross rounds one of their nuclear storage facilities. Check it out with the CDC." "How do you know Ma...

... committed by juveniles; blind destruction, as if killing was just play, a computer game, or a unique, exciting, extreme experience. A final experienc... ...dividualistic morality National cultural industry - occupational culture - media culture (TV) - mass events (festivals) - cultural services Meritocrac... ...cial national language - political world views - national utopias National media lore - national art and entertainment - consumer culture - national h... ...ple altogether in all three villages, accumulating about 70 hours of field tapes. During 1997-1999, , an undergraduate, joined us, starting interviewi... ...f Lampang plains villages belong to the yuan people and the original field tapes are in the local dialect ( ). The interviews from the years 1984-85 w... ... collections of the in Helsinki, and archive copies of the field interview tapes are deposited in the recordings archive of the . In this book, we hea... ... been built below the concrete bridge, and there are a couple of rainwater storage tanks up on the slope, but they do not resolve the cultivation prob... ...day, artisans do not sit at workbenches, but on the floor. When I bought a computer in a shop, it, too, was assembled on the floor of the shop. At fir... ...vided in the villages. Villagers did not yet have mobile phones. There are computers in schools, and the government considers it important that young ...

...in print shops and in the current digital eBook era.. My degree in human-computer interfaces in 1973 led to my appointment as adjunct professor at ... .... You could walk into that library, and the first thing you‘d see was the computer asking if there were any books you wanted. You selected books fro... ... lost books. You could search books using the SEARCH function on your own computer, import quotations into paper e-mails, etc., and copy the book. ... ...ld write and edit copy on this setup. One key click punched holes in paper tapes that—when run through apparatus in the back shop—set type twice as f... ...to cut out her tongue and leave her in the cabin. There, Philomela wove a tapestry that told her story and had it sent to Procne. Her sister’s so... ...pic gods changed all three into birds. Cave drawings, notched sticks, tapestries, and the like, however, marked but baby steps beyond the limita... ...e toward the top of the machine until each matrix dropped into its proper storage tube within the Linotype‘s magazine. Notches on the sides of m... ... key—were coded differently for each character to direct it to its proper storage place in a vertical tube at the top of the machine. Lower costs... ...d lower cases, where they could immediately be used again. Long aisles of storage cases that had been filled with foundry-produced type became obsol...