Word: virtualization
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Will the film spectator turn completely away from the present and towards a cinema that consists entirely of a post-modern pastiche of found cultural objects and old media, thrown together in an all-encompassing digital orgy? Will technologies like Virtual Reality take off and morph human subjectivity into a fantasy-land of deceptive “mobile space?” Do you care...
...expand research-and-design centers in California, Michigan, and near Frankfurt, Germany; a $60 million proving ground in California's Mojave Desert opened in January. In South Korea, Chung expanded his R&D headquarters, adding a new design center last year complete with a 3-D cinema for viewing virtual models of new cars. Lee says Chung visited his office recently and asked: "Do you have enough money?" Lee, with a wry smile, says he told his boss he didn't. Chung immediately offered several hundred million dollars. "I have an unlimited account," Lee says...
...virtual certainty of death from AIDS, once the syndrome has fully developed, that makes the disease so frightening, along with the uncertainty of nearly everything else about it. Despite the progress in medical research so far, huge questions remain about its origin and fundamental nature. In trying to understand AIDS, says Dr. William Haseltine, a leading investigator at Harvard's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, "we have moved from being explorers in a canoe to explorers with a small sail on the vast sea of what we do not know...
Corporate Raider Carl Icahn's usual strategy is to buy a stake in a target company and then sell out to another bidder at a huge profit. But this time the New York City financier may stick around and keep the business. Last week he gained virtual control of TWA, the sixth largest U.S. airline, by accumulating at least 45.5% of the company's stock. In the process Icahn may have defeated Frank Lorenzo, the chairman of Texas Air and a rival bidder for TWA, with a series of intricate maneuvers worthy of the Navy's Blue Angels flying aces...
...tragedy could have been averted or at least limited in its scope. In an article headlined A PREDICTED DISASTER, the respected Bogot daily El Espectador disclosed on Friday that the Colombian National Institute of Geological-Mining Investigations (INGEOMINAS) had published a report on Oct. 7 warning of the virtual certainty of a disaster. The report singled out Armero and the village of Chinchin as threatened sites. As early as Sept. 26, INGEOMINAS had recommended the evacuation of towns at the base of the volcano. But the Colombian Ministers of the Interior, Public Works and Transportation, and Mines and Energy...