Word: virtuality
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Virtual water coolers offer the online equivalent of the kind of banter that workers pick up in the office hallway or over an after-hours beer. At their best, these sites can be as salacious as a hot rumor whispered over a cubicle divider. The Velvet Rope, a music-industry insiders' site, traffics in scuttlebutt about which acts reputedly lip-synch. And as with off-line gossip, sex talk is encouraged. Vault.com recently had a series of postings about a purported call-girl and call-boy ring at a large New York City investment firm that features celebrity look-alikes...
...Good virtual water coolers turn up in unexpected places. The funeral professionals' discussion board on casketstores.com is oddly riveting, with talk ranging from how to improve public opinion about funeral directors to how to ensure that a casket is airtight. The flight attendants' site on Insidetheweb.com has the feel of a late-night, rear-of-the-plane gabfest, on topics like whether it's O.K. to accept a $100 tip from a passenger (consensus: no) to an attendant's gripping first-person account of her first emergency landing. ("As I strapped myself into my jumpseat, I remember thinking that...
Nonsense, says Bezos, who chides Suria for treating the company like a bricks-and-mortar retailer rather than a virtual store with a handful of distribution centers and minimal inventory costs. After Amazon's second-quarter results were released, Bezos claims, Suria tacitly admitted his mistake. "He sent us an e-mail starting out, 'Wow...you guys are really tightening your belts,'" says Bezos. "I printed it and had it framed...
...this man was to Japanese culture roughly what Leonardo da Vinci or Benvenuto Cellini had been to Italy a century before: a wonderfully versatile master of many media, renowned equally as painter, calligrapher, potter, lacquer artist and, thanks to his close relationship with the great shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa, the virtual "art director" of Buddhist Japan. No artist, Eastern or Western, was ever more authoritative within his own culture; and Koetsu's work was also identified with the tea ceremony, whose aesthetic principles--and even, to no small extent, subject matter--he helped form...
...Japan last year, it quickly sold more than 550,000 units to become the most popular Dreamcast game ever. A technological breakthrough, it's the first video game ever to use voice recognition. You talk; Seaman listens. The game comes with a little microphone, so you and your virtual pet can engage in virtual banter together, with Seaman relying on its 12,000 lines of preprogrammed dialogue...