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...ARTHUR C. CLARKE, science fiction writer and futurist Perdido Street Station by CHINA MI?VILLE "It was the winner of the last Arthur C. Clarke Award, and I obviously had to see if the judges had used my money wisely. They...
...What Chung didn't consider were the distribution possibilities inherent in e-mail?especially of those perceived as obnoxious?and his message was forwarded around the world bearing addenda like, "What a tool box." Within days he had lost his job. "E-mail makes every user mass media," says futurist Alvin Toffler. "The power was put into the hands of a child and he had 15 seconds of global fame." Hope that FedEx package doesn't come C.O.D...
...existence. Creating her took 277 tries, and right up until her birth, scientists around the world were saying that cloning a mammal from an adult cell was impossible. "There's a significant gap between what scientists are willing to talk about in public and their private aspirations," says British futurist Patrick Dixon. "The law of genetics is that the work is always significantly further ahead than the news. In the digital world, everything is hyped because there are no moral issues?there is just media excitement. Gene technology creates so many ethical issues that scientists are scared stiff...
...existence. Creating her took 277 tries, and right up until her birth, scientists around the world were saying that cloning a mammal from an adult cell was impossible. "There's a significant gap between what scientists are willing to talk about in public and their private aspirations," says British futurist Patrick Dixon. "The law of genetics is that the work is always significantly further ahead than the news. In the digital world, everything is hyped because there are no moral issues--there is just media excitement. Gene technology creates so many ethical issues that scientists are scared stiff...
...DUCATI SPORTS BIKE MH900e Like a futurist painting, this sensuously sleek Italian motorbike, designed in honor of champion racer Mike Hailwood, seems to move while standing still. And did it ever move! Just after midnight on New Year's Day, it sold out its first year's entire production at the Ducati website in 31 minutes flat...