Word: networked
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Bradner, a senior technical advisor to the university who built Harvard's first computer network, thinks that unless the computing community takes action immediately, the Internet will break down within two years...
...years ago, there were 10,000 local networks making up the Internet that the hubs used to forward traffic from one local network to another had to know about. About a year ago there were 60,000 and today, there are about...
...Internet is an enormous web of interconnected computers, each part of a smaller network and without a single center...
...Connectivity promises to transform a way of life that could be mistaken for timeless. Warana's project is providing farmers with access to essential information. The network keeps detailed records of all transactions with local sugar and milk cooperatives; it lists prices of farm produce in the region's agricultural markets (to help farmers decide what to plant or where to sell their produce); and it offers a daily weather forecast...
...network also helps reduce a major anxiety plaguing local farmers. Once a sugarcane crop is ready to harvest, each day's delay reduces its sugar content and the money the farmer can get from a cooperative for his crop. The Pokhale cooperative owns only one harvester, which is usually monopolized by bigger, more influential farmers. But now the harvesting dates for every village and farm are available on the network, and farmers can complain to the cooperative chief if the harvester fails to arrive at the appointed hour. Ghewari, 63, who grows cane in a five-acre field, was quick...