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...could forget that January afternoon last year when Michael Jordan, generally considered the best basketball player in history and arguably one of the best athletes of the century, took his final curtain call...
...flyers (all printed on 100 percent recycled paper, no less). Some shouted saucy slogans, others combined Orwellian starch with the sort of gentle, nudging reminders one finds on the refrigerator doors of overweight aunts: "GREEN CUP SAYS: Please don't waste food," "GREEN CUP Reminds you... Don't forget to recycle!" (Green Cup is watching...
...People forget that 500 years ago, China was the world's sole superpower. When many Europeans were living in mud huts and scratching the soil with sticks, China was the greatest economic and military power on earth. A hundred years before Europe began its mastery of Asia and America, China had the biggest and best navy in the world. But for an accident of history, Europe would be speaking Chinese today. China discovered the inventions that would pave the way to world mastery for those who put them to use: the printing press, gunpowder and the magnetic compass. Given this...
...world system. This is the American myth of the 1990s. We Americans, for example, see a rigid trade-off between economic success in the age of globalization and military power. We think other countries can have one or the other but not both. This simplistic view, however, forgets even our own history, as well as the history of other rising states. The rise to superpowerdom in the U.S. in the 1940s and 1950s was accompanied by sharp growth in economic and military power. Each fueled the other. We forget this because as a status quo power we want to freeze...
...your desktop virtual assistant reads aloud your schedule for the day. The temperature and lighting will adjust automatically to your preferences. Though we probably won't attain the mythical paperless office, there will likely be less of the messy stuff lying about, thanks to high-tech, rewritable parchment. And forget about typing: sophisticated voice recognition will let you tell your PC what to do (though all that yakking could just as easily make you hoarse...