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...Nighthorse Campbell, the bolo-wearin', Harley-ridin' Senator from Colorado. When Campbell left the Democrats for the Republicans in 1995, no balance of power was at stake, but that didn't make things any easier. "It's burned into my memory forever," says Campbell of the weeks after his switch. "You just get hammered on awfully hard." The awkwardness lasted a few weeks, he reports. But despite presumed similarities, the Senate functions with a little more dignity than a clique-ridden high school. "Yes, it's a small group, only 100 people, but they know they have to get along...
...down manholes to fix phone lines and maintain highly sophisticated equipment. Rather than carry a bagful of printed manuals, workers strap on MA-IVs, which have all the manuals on their hard-disk drives. If a worker encounters a tricky problem with a particular router, say, he can switch on his video camera and beam live images to a supervisor who can then advise corrective measures...
...monument to every techie's fantasy. The place is bristling with gadgetry. Apart from the usual household appliances and entertainment systems, there are webcams, motion sensors, and electronic photoframes - thin lcds where you can show off several photos at the same time from that Hawaiian holiday or switch pictures depending on who's visiting. Everything in the home seems to communicate with every other thing. You can watch TV on the computer, do e-mail on the TV screen, check the weather online from a portable webpad. You can control lighting, heat and security systems from the Internet...
...fair, there are plenty of useful things I could do with the technology that fills the Cisco home. On a hot summer's day, I could phone my air-conditioning system and tell it to switch itself on half an hour before I arrive. I could have carpenters fix a kitchen shelf and monitor their progress from my office, using a webcam. And I'd love to have a webpad that allows me to access the Internet wirelessly from anywhere in the house, including the john...
...local businesses participate, and it's not that hard to pick up the phone). They had to remove the hallway camera meant to monitor their security remotely, after neighbors in their apartment block complained about being filmed without their consent. And they have had terrible luck trying to switch on their home air-conditioning over the Net before leaving the office. The feature was blocked by their companies' firewalls. Otherwise, it would have been a nice touch, as would the digital video cameras that could allow Raymond to beam up his wife's image over the Internet while...