Word: advent
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...Demographers now say the advent, in sheer numbers, of minorities in general and Latinos in particular, will take place mostly where it always has: on the coasts, on the borders, and in urban centers where cheap labor and ethnic diversity is most welcomed. Just as California leads America, Los Angeles - mottled population, rich white minority - may be the future of places like the urban centers of the Northeast, Florida, Texas and Washington...
...advent of Napster that has caused people, in Oliver Stone fashion, to do something," he added...
...Zitttrain said that tracking and identification efforts will be easier with the advent of new protective measures by groups such as the Internet Engineering Task Force, which works to develop new standards and protocols for the Internet...
...advent of programmable, nanoscale machines (see "Will Tiny Robots Build Diamonds One Atom at a Time?" in this issue) will extend the Internet to things the size of molecules that can be injected under the skin, leading to Internet-enabled people. Such devices, together with Internet-enabled sensors embedded in clothing, will avoid a hospital stay for medical patients who would otherwise be there only for observation. The speech processor used today in cochlear implants for the hearing impaired could easily be connected to the Internet; listening to Internet radio could soon be a direct computer-to-brain experience...
...grandfather worked here before the advent of the telephone," he says, "He'd get up early, hitch up the horse, take orders, then buy produce in the marketplace and come back again and make deliveries...