Word: computerized
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But many of the well-known examples of Gore's stretching the truth are themselves stretches. He never claimed to have "invented" the Internet; he said that in Congress he "took the initiative in creating the Internet," an unfortunate way of saying he sponsored the bill that bankrolled the transformation...
Ask Gore a question today, and he sometimes responds as if he's dictating a treatise. He loves academic arcana and obscure scientific theories, some of them deep and others New Age-y. He is drawn to complexity--abstract systems, chaos theory, the computer-processing technique of distributed intelligence--and...
When they first met as Ph.D. students, the pair say they found each other obnoxious--"I still find him obnoxious," adds Brin--but were thrust together by a computer-science project aimed at devising better ways of searching the Web. From the start, it was hard-core geek love.
Compared to, say, the computer industry in the past two decades, football has hardly changed. As a Dennis Miller fan and a beer drinker--there were approximately 6,000 Coors and Budweiser commercials during the three-hour game--I felt reasonably at home. Having forgotten a lot of gridiron lingo...
For its first hour, this is an engaging rite-of-passage comedy for the Modern Maturity set. When the men go into orbit, so does the film. It blends tension and emotion, computer wizardry and dramatic skill in a vigorous climax--and the most impressive, haunting final shot of the...