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Books and magazines and newspapers are not the meaningful element. What matters is words. And words are not going anywhere; they are one of the most powerful and efficient forms of human communication. A few words--i.e., a few bits--can create religions, can make war or peace. Those words when presented to the eye (vs. the ear) are presented as text. In the past we could render text only by printing it on paper, carving it in stone, writing it with smoke...
...There is a huge element of competition to him," says Ramo. "He takes nothing for granted...
...boss, the famous chemist Gordon Moore, discovered the secret value of silicon. In 1965, he and his colleagues discovered that little pieces of the element could store and transfer electronic data without emitting energy that would overheat, and ultimately destroy, any computer of practical size...
...going gets hot, and blue and green flexible glow sticks are popular. One sound you'll hear if the party's going right: a communal whoop of approval when the deejay starts riding a good groove. "The first rock-'n'-roll shows were dance events," says 6th Element promoter Matt E. Silver, who has worked with best-selling electronica acts such as Chemical Brothers and Prodigy. "Now it's about deejay culture." In the movie Groove, the filmmakers refer to that connection between deejay and dancer, between promoter and satisfied raver, as "the nod." Many rave promoters and deejays...
...perceive leadership as a kind of gambling. There is a certain element of calculated risk. We are facing a lot of uncertainties, but my job is not to be paralyzed by the uncertainties--to try to play it in a way that will encourage the probability of good results...