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...down because that is the President's House, but this is Our House. That was the whole idea. We come by the hundreds, thousands, in tank tops and flip-flops, to see where Webster debated and wars were declared and National Mushroom Month was inscribed onto the nation's calendar. Boy Scouts pose for pictures, senior citizens wear buttons and troll for a Congressman to pester, Pentecostal pilgrims deliver copies of the Ten Commandments and pray outside on the lawn, heavyweight champs and movie stars with a cause and CEOs come to call and oh, yes--the lawmakers themselves...
...Abner Doubleday had wanted the game to move quickly, he would have put a clock in the game; after two hours, whoever was ahead would win." Fair enough, Chuck. Nobody wants to mess with the game's rhythm. A clock? Never. A calendar would be more like...
...testers and I sampled other new phones, including the compact Sony D-Wave Zuma 100 ($299), the even tinier Motorola StarTAC ($199) and Nokia's 6190 ($199)--a Swiss Army knife of a thing that allows you to send and receive text and numeric messages, and offers a calendar, calculator and four computer games. (Our detailed review of each phone is at time.com...
...futurist, however, Saffo does see an opportunity in all this to help distant generations. "For God's sake, let's go to five digits [for calendar dates in software] so we don't have a Y10K problem," he advises. Amen...
Forecasters have a problem because stunning developments in science and technology are constantly overtaking their imagination, while the most logical predictions are bound to be pushed aside by the unexpected. We also know that the millennium is an entirely artificial mark on the calendar. But beneath our preoccupation with it is a deep psychological meaning: the need to believe that we are not lost in time, that we are going somewhere and that we can glimpse where. We will feel a little forlorn having to look back to the year 2000. But soon enough, the predictions will start reaching toward...