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...days of free music, entertainment and food under the eight big tents. At the Technology Playground, visitors can contribute to the Inaugural Webumentary and send E-mail to the Clintons and Gores on 100 computer terminals; Elmo and Bill Nye "the Science Guy" will perform for kids at the Millennium Schoolhouse nearby, and over at the American Journey Pavilion, up to 3,000 Americans can listen to others tell the story of their personal journeys, a kind of civics class for the New Age. Administration officials roll their eyes a little when asked about this, but the basic lesson...
Still, the lessons of these defiant early believers stayed with the church, whose devotees spent much of the next millennium obsessively copying and recopying their sacred texts. It was a brutally inefficient process. Cloistered Benedictines toiled for years in musty scriptoriums, transcribing copy after copy of the Bible into leatherbound books. This medieval Xerox system was painfully low-tech: a monk would slowly copy from exemplar Latin Bibles as he and his brothers inked and gilded lavishly illustrated pages at the rate of roughly...
...whole culture of technology-loving--and in some cases, perhaps, technology-worshipping--futurists, such words smack of 1st millennium thinking in the face of 3rd millennium faith. They tend to see in the Internet something larger than themselves, an entity so much greater than the sum of its parts as to inspire awe and wonder. "People see the Net as a new metaphor for God," says Sherry Turkel, a professor of the sociology of science at M.I.T. The Internet, she says, exists as a world of its own, distinct from earthly reality, crafted by humans but now growing...
...moral sensibilities. He mentions that he has invented an underwater breathing device, then notes that divers could use it to sneak up on enemy ships and sink them. So he destroyed it, he says, lest "the evil nature of men" turn it into an instrument of death. Half a millennium later, he clearly remains a man ahead of his time...
...very real sense, the election had been debated on terms that Gingrich and his troops had set. But as the presidential candidates were pointing the way to the millennium, the Speaker of the House spent the past few months in a tiny world of half-empty hotel ballrooms and news conferences small enough to fit in a hallway. At times, doing missionary work with the already converted, he almost forgot to mention the name of whatever obscure candidate on whose behalf he was appearing...