Word: manhattanization
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...here and there, in cutting-edge schools around the nation, there are glimmers of what could be. Nowhere is the use of technology more advanced and pervasive than at the Dalton School, an elite private academy in New York City. The 1,300 students at Dalton, situated on Manhattan's posh Upper East Side, enjoy resources that any school would envy: a teaching staff studded with Ph.D.s, a 62,000-volume library and specialized studios for instruction in subjects such as architecture and dance. But what really distinguishes the school is the way it is using technology to change...
...though, most online advertising is being produced by small shops, while the big agencies that produce most of America's advertising watch nervously from the sidelines. In February, Raymond Smith, chief executive officer of Bell Atlantic, told advertising professionals in Manhattan that the big agencies had better get serious about interactive advertising, or someone else will get the work. ``You can jump in early and help create this exciting new medium,'' he said, ``or you can let the world pass you by, and find yourself operating the best darned buggy-whip business on Madison Avenue.'' Smith's warning followed...
...hours later, I'm down at the local galaxy-class grocery store, in Bulk: a Manhattan of towering Lucite bins filled with steel-cut rolled oats, off- brand Froot Loops, sun-dried tomatoes, prefabricated s'mores, macadamias, French roasts and pignolias, all dispensed into your bag or bucket with a jerk at the handy Plexiglas guillotine. Not a human being in sight, just robot restocking machines trundling back and forth on a grid of overhead catwalks and surveillance cameras hidden in smoked-glass hemispheres. I stroll through the gleaming Lucite wonderland holding a perfect 6-in. cube improvised from duct...
...visual artists who are defining and redefining their work through the use of cybertechnology. ``The computer is now an accepted tool,'' says David Ross, director of the Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art. ``In the art world, it is no longer an issue.'' From the fashionably bohemian precincts of lower Manhattan to London and Los Angeles, the cultural world abounds with computer-aided musicians, CD-ROM virtuosos, painters, photographers and digital artists who are building their own galleries in cyberspace -- all in addition to the digitally savvy filmmakers who have already transformed cinema. Lanier embodies a whole new genre of music...
...newest senior writer, Elizabeth Gleick, who came to us from PEOPLE magazine (as did Aitken). Gleick, raised in New York City, attended Yale, where she enjoyed editing the Yale Daily News Magazine more than going to classes--though she still graduated magna cum laude in 1985. Back in Manhattan, she found an entry-level job at Vogue. ``I think I worked out because I could type fast and still get lunch every day for five people,'' she says. ``But there was no way I could dress as well as everyone else in the elevator...