Word: somehow
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...City. The number-one precaution I could take against getting raped, she said, was to avoid wearing skimpy clothing. I immediately bristled at her comment, for two reasons. The first was a knee-jerk response to the fact that she seemed to be invoking the argument that rape victims somehow "ask for it." But the second--and the one I felt more vehemently about--was the fact that I'm the proud owner of more than a few cute little sundresses, I wasn't going to let safety precautions get in the way of my looking good...
...that, somehow, I think that if Apple was the sponsor and Intel had the kiosks, Apple wouldn't have been so paranoid as to demand such a stipulation as covering and unplugging anything. Yet, as a dedicated Mac user, I can't help but feel a bit giddy and pleased that Intel made such a demand based on fear of market trends and the success of iMacs, and Macs in general. Get used to it, Intel...
Seen through Jim's eyes, everything that happens to him seems strange and somehow magical. On his first major journey, a trip in a truck with Uncle Al to South Carolina to see about buying some horses, Jim looks out at unfamiliar farmhouses and thinks, "People live here. They don't know who I am." Uncle Al makes a side trip to Myrtle Beach so that Jim can get his first look at the Atlantic: "He wished that just for a moment, until he grew used to the sight, the ocean would simply hold still. But the waves lined...
There may be a silver lining to all this. If Moore's law somehow continues unabated, then by some estimates our computers by 2050 will be calculating well beyond 500 trillion bytes per sec., at which point, as Ray Kurzweil suggests (see "Will My PC Be Smarter Than I Am?"), they will be considerably smarter than we are. Evolution says organisms are replaced by species of superior adaptability. When our robots tire of taking orders, they may, if we're lucky, show more compassion to us than we've shown the species we have pushed into oblivion. Perhaps they will...
Meanwhile, in case you somehow haven't noticed, we are all becoming it; we seem to have no choice but to take it within ourselves...