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Many Harvard students, as invulnerable as they may seem, do have issues they would like to talk about with someone removed from the everyday routine of their life. But there is a big difference between thinking that talking to an adult about academic and personal issues might be nice, and actually seeking out an adult with whom to talk. At Harvard, finding a tutor, professor or teaching fellow with whom to discuss your life is often more a matter of luck than of any institutional advising structure...
Windows 95 has also straightened out some of the most annoying aspects of everyday computer use, from plugging in a new printer to communicating over a tangled corporate network. On Windows 95, you can instantly see the whole network just by clicking twice on an icon labeled Network Neighborhood. That brings up a map of all the computers in the "neighborhood,'' which you can get into simply by clicking on them (provided you have the necessary passwords). This may not sound like much, but when corporate network administrators see it, they will think they have died and gone to computer...
...grim facts surrounding Oklahoma City, perhaps the grimmest is the one nobody talks about: against the backdrop of everyday American tragedy, 167 deaths is not many. Even if the darker fears now circulating were realized and this new form of murder began striking once or twice a year, the overall picture of violent death in America would barely change. In a typical year, guns kill 38,000 Americans and about that many die on our roads. These numbers routinely go up or down 2% or 3%-half a dozen Oklahoma bombings -- without making the front page...
What does the future hold? Well, in the American home, at least, it's pretty clear that computers are moving away from their long-standing role as novelty devices and into a new role as everyday household appliances...
...what? The notion of the computer as an "everyday household appliance" alongside the coffeemaker and the microwave oven may not jive with most of the American public today, but that's exactly the perception that the vanguard of the information industry needs to promote...