Word: computerized
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Bradner, a senior technical advisor to the university who built Harvard's first computer network, thinks that unless the computing community takes action immediately, the Internet will break down within two years.
Each piece of data sent through the Internet has a number to specify one of four billion destinations. Routers refer to a road map--called a "next hop table" in computer terminology--to point the data in the right direction.
When one Harvard students sends another an e-mail message, Harvard's routers know to move it from one Harvard computer to another. This data never leaves Harvard's section of the Internet.
Baker thinks it can. He argues that as computer memory becomes exponentially cheaper with time, the amount of memory available to computer designers will match the need for more powerful routers.
The network also helps reduce a major anxiety plaguing local farmers. Once a sugarcane crop is ready to harvest, each day's delay reduces its sugar content and the money the farmer can get from a cooperative for his crop. The Pokhale cooperative owns only one harvester, which is usually...