Word: bandwidth
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...dazzling are the technological marvels promised by the future that we sometimes tend to lose faith in ourselves. No matter how fast the modems or how great the bandwidth, certain human traits will never change. Men and women will still struggle to understand each other. We will still worry about what influences our kids, look for leaders to guide us wisely, seek spiritual uplift and leisure downtime. In this, the second installment of TIME's series of questions for the 21st century, we focus on how we will live, work and play in the years to come. Technology will change...
Bear in mind, for starters, that in 2025 the average American will have, as they say in technical circles, bandwidth out the wazoo. You won't just be able to monitor your child's day care by webcam (a service already offered by more than 100 day-care centers). You'll be able to monitor it in high-definition 3-D format, providing valuable perspective during slo-mo replays of block-throwing incidents...
...program and thereby receive separate, incisive and differing reports on topical subjects. Shortly, you will read TIME, watch CNN and be able to browse AOL's sites. But you will undoubtedly get the feeling you are digesting the same rehashed, bland and insipid "content." The rush to fill Internet bandwidth has dumbed down our media fare. The "new media" have made everything equal to one (and the same). How boring! FRANK KUBICEK New York City...
...considering bandwidth limiting at present," says Faculty of Arts and Sciences Director of Computer Services Franklin M. Steen. "We're trying to build up the bandwidth to accommodate the demand...
After installing extra bandwidth, the school was still unable to meet demand, and decided to ban traffic from the Napster web site, which is necessary for that company's application to work...