Word: networked
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...article in Saturday's edition of the San Francisco Chronicle claimed Meselson "charged that Russia's widespread network of germ warfare plants remain barred to Western inspectors despite long-standing agreements with the United States and Britain to end the secrecy...
...locations for about a decade, they turned into something of a national movement after the 1998 murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard. There are now more than 700 gay-straight clubs in schools from Iowa to New Jersey to Georgia, according to the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network. Members need not identify their sexual orientation, and many alliances serve primarily as forums for discussing all things teen. "It's really important to feel there are other people to talk to," says a gay senior at Staples High in Westport, Conn., who asked that his name not be used...
...engulfed by a "cybersphere" in which billions of "information structures" will drift (invisible but real, like radio waves) bearing the words, sounds and pictures on which our lives depend. That's because the electronic world will have achieved some coherence by 2025. Instead of phone, computer and TV networks side by side, one network will do it all. TVs and phones and computers will all be variations on one theme. Their function will be to tune in these information structures in the sense that a radio tunes in station WXYZ...
...information structures are just beginning to emerge. They are likely to be far safer and more private than anything we have ever put on paper. Nonetheless, by 2025, a large proportion of the world's valuable private information will be stored on computers that are connected to a global network, and if a thief can connect his computer to that same global network, he will have--in principle--an electronic route from his machine to yours...
...that story lines will be junked altogether to get straight to the laugh--since, as any sitcom producer will tell you, the same seven plots have merely been recycled endlessly since the beginning of television. Realizing that likable characters are the key to a TV comedy's success, the networks will establish new characters in 2- to 3-min. "mini-coms." Then, after viewer response is gauged via an Internet hookup, those favorites will appear on the air regularly, in 5- or 6-sec. bursts, much like the network promos we now see. You know the ones: Ross from Friends...