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...watch leather-lunged TV megachef Emeril Lagasse, you've probably heard him lament the limitations of his medium: "Oooh! I can't wait till we get Smell-o-Vision so you can smell this at home...
...powerful ones; this is the inexorable acceleration expressed as Moore's law. The same dynamic drives biotech and nanotech--even more so because all these technologies tend to accelerate one another. Computers are rapidly mapping the DNA in the human genome, and now DNA is being explored as a medium for computation. When nanobots are finally perfected, you can be sure that one of the first things they will do is make new and better nanobots...
...festivals, and by the time she was 20 her "Pixelvision" videos were shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Her 1998 video Flat Is Beautiful was screened at this year's Whitney Biennial. Now Benning, 27, is bringing her lo-fi aesthetic to an older medium: rock 'n' roll...
...With Arafat threatening to unilaterally declare a Palestinian state by the end of the year, and Barak warning that Israel would retaliate with unilateral annexation of some West Bank lands, the Clinton administration may have to settle for medium-term damage control. The only relative certainty in the process is that the final outcome will be one that both sides accept grudgingly rather than gleefully. Perhaps that should be expected; after all, the Israeli-Palestinian peace process is less of a marriage than a divorce...
...medium may be new, but human nature hasn't changed: whatever firewalls and antidotes the virus hunters come up with, virus writers will always find a way around them. As veteran hacker Emmanuel Goldstein put it, "If your system can be knocked out, assume it will be." You journalists need to read a little more carefully. He said if it "can" be knocked out. It is feasible to engineer systems that are exceedingly difficult to knock out without incurring significant costs. The Love Bug exploits a system that was designed to encourage promiscuous behavior. Windows is a code-running slut...