Word: bit
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Lanier is a bit surprised by the hoopla his brainchild has generated. He concedes that expectations have flown far ahead of today's primitive technology, but he is convinced that virtual reality will someday live up to its name. He dreams of users creating their own artificial environment as fast as they can describe it. Even if these worlds are sketched roughly on the screen, he claims, the mind will fill in the missing details. "The internal experience of reality is much more a product of your central nervous system than of the actual external world," he says. "That...
...supplies even after the war was over (though some experts say much of the damage could probably be repaired in a few months). The shortages would exacerbate the already startling run-up in oil prices. How much is anybody's guess, but $50 per bbl. for crude, vs. a bit less than $32 now and $18 as recently as mid-July, is conceivable...
...recession alarms swiftly spread to the world's financial markets, where stock prices plunged. On Wall Street the Dow Jones industrial average fell 93.31 points Monday, then recovered a bit, but closed the week at 2716.58, down a total of 93.07. As recently as July 16, the Dow had climbed to an all- time high of 2999.75. In Japan, which is almost wholly dependent on foreign oil, the Nikkei Index of 225 stocks closed Friday at 27,329.55, down 7.4% for the week and 11.4% since Iraq invaded Kuwait...
...three stories, by the way -- the coitus of an aging rake (Peter Weller) and a nubile flapper is rendered interruptus by untimely calls from his other women. Former teen queen Molly Ringwald delivers her lioness's share of the Parker sallies with engaging zest but seems a bit too twentysomethingly modern for a tart of the Roaring Twenties...
...Kuwait, some experts worried that without the superpowers to rein them in, other nations tend to live by the law of the jungle, and hot wars are a condition of nature. Hence Europe could revert to patterns of international behavior that not too long ago made it every bit as dangerous and violent as the Middle East is today...