Quotes by Charles Platt - Page 1

The always-on economy, by definition, depends upon continuous energy.
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Depends
Economy
Energy
Continuous
Definition
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Misery is the stuff of comedy, if one can just live long enough to get over it.
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Comedy
Misery
Over It
Enough Long Live
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A future at Wal-Mart may sound a less-than-stellar prospect, but it's a whole lot better than no future at all.
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No Future
Prospect
Wal-Mart
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As cyberspace matures into a totally immersive experience, I'm betting it will turn out to be fully odor-enabled.
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Betting
Cyberspace
Totally
Fully
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In Finland in the winter, when the sky is totally choked with clouds, the country becomes one big sensory deprivation tank.
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Clouds
Deprivation
Finland
Sensory
Sky
Winter
Totally
Becomes
Choked
Tank
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Personally, I believe that government, rather than money, tends to be the primary factor limiting the development of new technologies.
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Money Government Believe
Factor
Limiting
New Technologies
Technologies
Tends
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The landscape of the Net has changed; that cyberfrontier of the past has become a teeming city of people, transactions, and businesses.
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Landscape
Transactions
Businesses
Net
Teeming
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If smart technology can transform 3-D from a crude novelty to a genuine visual enhancement, why shouldn't a sophisticated odor synthesizer follow a similar path?
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Crude
Enhancement
Genuine
Novelty
Odor
Sophisticated
Visual
Similar
Synthesizer
Transform
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Despite (or because of) a free public school system, millions of teenagers enter the work force without marketable skills. So why would anyone expect them to be well paid?
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Despite
Force
Millions
Paid
Public School
School System
Skills
Enter
Expect
Teenagers
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The blunt tools of legislation or union power can force a corporation to pay higher wages, but if employees don't create an equal amount of additional value, there's no net gain.
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Blunt
Legislation
Tools
Wages
Additional
Corporation
Employees
Gain
Net
Union
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Scaremongering is an age-old political ritual. There are public officials who have benefited by playing up the 'hacker threat' so that they can win approval by cracking down on it.
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Approval
Officials
Public Officials
Ritual
Age-Old
Cracking
Hacker
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The public is eager for stories of True Cybercrime, and the media is happy to glamorize the subject. But when teenagers take the bait and live out our fantasies for us, we punish them for frightening us too much.
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Bait
Frightening
Eager
Fantasies
Punish
Teenagers
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Even if major funding is obtained for cold fusion, conceivably the phenomenon could suffer from problems as intractable as those of hot fusion. It may never work reliably or generate enough energy to be commercially viable.
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Cold
Funding
Fusion
Phenomenon
Commercially
Generate
Intractable
Obtained
Reliably
Suffer
Viable
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If low-temperature fusion does exist and can be perfected, power generation could be decentralized. Each home could heat itself and produce its own electricity, probably using a form of water as fuel. Even automobiles might be cold-fusion powered.
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Electricity
Form
Fuel
Fusion
Heat
Produce
Water
Automobiles
Itself
Exist
Decentralized
Generation
Powered
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In the early 1970s, phone phreaks manipulated the long-distance system using blue boxes that they built from sketchy photocopied schematics that were often riddled with errors. Not many had the skill to do this. Phreaking was restricted to a select few.
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Blue
Boxes
Errors
Long Distance
Select
Manipulated
Restricted
Riddled
Skill
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When the International Space Station is finally launched, it will be fitted with special nickel-hydrogen batteries weighing a total of several tons, with a lifetime of just five years, requiring spares to be brought up from Earth at literally astronomical expense.
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Batteries
International Space Station
Lifetime
Weighing
Astronomical
Expense
Fitted
Requiring
Space Station
Tons
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The idea of an e-book has been around since the late 1970s, when researchers at Xerox PARC got on the case. Their prototype used millions of little magnetic particles, black on one side and white on the other, loosely embedded in the surface of a soft sheet of rubber.
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Embedded
Late
Magnetic
Millions
Particles
Prototype
Researchers
Rubber
Xerox
Case
Loosely
Sheet
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Everyone knows that the broadband era will breed a new generation of online services, but this is only half of the story. Like any innovation, broadband will inflict major changes on its environment. It will destroy, once and for all, the egalitarian vision of the Internet.
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Broadband
Environment
Innovation
New Generation
Online
Vision
Breed
Destroy
Egalitarian
Generation
Inflict
Major
Services
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Merchandise from Wal-Mart has become as ubiquitous as the water supply. Yet, still, the company is rebuked and reviled by anyone claiming a social conscience and is lambasted by legislators as if its bad behavior places it somewhere between investment bankers and the Taliban.
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Bad Behavior
Conscience
Investment
Legislators
Merchandise
Taliban
Claiming
Reviled
Supply
Ubiquitous
Wal-Mart
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Unsurprisingly, an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) - once a luxury for room-sized computer installations - is now a standard item both in home offices and all the networked tiers above, protecting servers and online service providers, Internet backbones, phone companies, and even cable TV networks.
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Home
Cable Tv
Computer
Internet
Luxury
Online
Providers
Service Providers
Now
Above
Tv
Cable
Companies
Networks
Phone
Item
Offices
Standard
Protecting
Service
Supply
Ups
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Watching cold fusion is like watching water boil in slow motion. First, sufficient deuterium has to penetrate the palladium electrode. This can take a few weeks. Then, if excess heat is generated during the next month or two, accurate temperature readings require extreme precautions to exclude environmental effects.
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Environmental
Accurate
Cold
Effects
Excess
Fusion
Heat
Penetrate
Slow Motion
Sufficient
Temperature
Extreme
Month
Boil
Slow
Require
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Our information network is much better protected than our railroad network, and someone who cracks a system is able to cause far less human damage than someone who derails a train. Why, then, has 'computer crime' caused so much hysteria? Perhaps because the public is so willing - eager, even - to be scared by bogeymen.
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Computer
Cracks
Crime
Damage
Hysteria
Information
Protected
Scared
Willing
Cause
Eager
Far Less
Network
Perhaps
Railroad
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At 3-D Imax theaters, audiences have shown they are willing to pay a premium to wear headgear fitted with liquid-crystal lenses synchronized via infrared signals with the movie projector, which runs at twice the normal frame rate. These movie viewers plumb new depths in depth perception - they experience extreme realism.
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Depth
Infrared
Lenses
Perception
Premium
Rate
Realism
Signals
Viewers
Twice
Extreme
Fitted
Frame
Runs
Shown
Theaters
Via
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I've always resented the force of attraction that traps me here on Planet Earth. It makes me feel like a bug stuck to a piece of duct tape. Ever since my teenage years, when I used to read a lot of science fiction and took it much too seriously, I've dreamed of somehow reaching escape velocity. I am, you might say, anti-gravity.
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Attraction
Planet Earth
Reaching
Science Fiction
Stuck
Tape
Teenage
Teenage Years
Traps
Velocity
Science Always Me
Bug
Dreamed
Escape
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When you shop online, wouldn't you like to sample the bouquet of wines, the aroma of cigars, or the subtle fragrance of flowers before surrendering your credit card number? Surely more companies will want to aromatize their Web presence when they realize there's a device that can produce genuinely pleasing, authentic fragrances.
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Credit
Credit Card
Fragrance
Online
Sample
Subtle
Authentic
Bouquet
Card
Flowers
Device
Genuinely
Shop
Pleasing
Presence
Surely
Surrendering
Web
Wines
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