Word: virtuality
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...include magazine editors in this endangered group, another sign that she will go far at TIME.) Her colleague Daniel Eisenberg imagines the office of the future, which (with any luck) will feature chairs that give back rubs and walls of flat-screen monitors that will afford you a virtual view of the Matterhorn from downtown Toledo. Now if only we could predict the office gossip...
...reduced the risks to our own pilots by using high-technology aircraft to frustrate the enemy's air defenses. Video-teleconferencing and virtual-intelligence centers created by using a secret, high-capacity Internet helped keep up with the detailed top-down guidance and changing politics directed by an alliance of 19 sovereign states--all as the world's media looked on. After 78 days, the opposing leader gave in to NATO's demands, without a single NATO ground soldier having to fight his way into Serbia...
...shows like P.S.1's. Aitken's piece, which was featured on the cover of the exhibition catalogue, embodies this trend. Yet the media buzz prior to the opening of the Biennial was not about Aitken or other noteworthy Biennial participants, but about "Sanitation." Haacke's piece has caused a virtual spectacle that has grown to involve New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, the Whitney Museum and the artist himself. Late last year, Giuliani cut the Brooklyn Museum's funding because it decided to show, as part of an exhibit called Sensation, Chris Ofili's controversial painting of the Virgin Mary smeared...
...recommending changes in Boeing 737 rudder design 4. Bouncer's requests 7. To a tiny degree 11. Suffix with ideologue 12. Kind of contribution from the N.R.A., perhaps 13. On one's toes 14. She's billed as the world's first virtual newscaster 16. Rose up, in dialect 17. Word on either side of "-a-" 18. Set sail 20. OCS relative 22. Short poem, of sorts 25. Defendant in a controversial 1921 murder trial 28. Poet's conjunction 29. A target of the Asian long-horned beetle 32. Forbidden city, once 34. Starchy dish 35. Javits Center architect...
...Virtual Business class, where all the students wore white button-down shirts, I was greeted at the door by an "executive assistant" who asked me to sign her guest book. Her CEO, "Ms. Moronta," handed me her business card and led me through a PowerPoint demonstration of her virtual DVD business. Clocks showed the times in New York City, Tokyo, Bakersfield, Calif., and Nuremberg, Germany. I have never been so frightened in my life...