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...what life is like today, as well as a re-creation of what it's like to walk down the street in New York. There could be a Hassidic Jew on your left mumbling things you can't understand and an Asian hipster on your right on his cell phone. It's a complete cast of characters saying things that are being thrown at you simultaneously...
...copper wire running from everybody's ear to everybody else's ear. It took 100 years to do it. It was big centralized power companies, nuclear power plants. Transmissions lines. Big, centralized phone companies.... And then look what happened. Communications is now point of use. You carry a cell phone. Computing - you carry a PC. I think in the next decade or two, as the rest of the developing world stands on the shoulders of what we've created over the last few hundred years of the industrial revolution ... they don't have to go through the painstaking evolution...
...Your call cannot be completed, because the subscriber has been bombed or kidnapped." PHONE MESSAGE popular among mobile-phone users in Baghdad. Cell-phone subscriptions in Iraq have boomed, increasing from 1.4 million in 2003 to more than 7 million today
...Streets that had been nearly empty for a month were now snarled with traffic. Some people had come to see their homes, while others were merely curious, and snapped pictures with cell-phone cameras. The still-smoldering lunar craters of what used to be residential blocks were now filled with a parade of people, scrambling over the concrete slabs and broken widow panes, as if participants in some mass funeral procession, choking on dust and that special acrid smell that comes from burnt buildings. In some areas, rescue crews were still looking for bodies...
...become an ism--as much ideology as flesh--and al-Qaeda has largely devolved or maybe evolved into a franchise operation. Radical groups in various countries are largely self- activated and self-sustaining, though they may check in with top management before a major assault, as did the Saudi cell that in 2003 plotted hydrogen cyanide attacks in the New York City subways. Al-Qaeda No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, called off that scheme, preferring, U.S. officials believed, to prepare for something bigger...