Word: virtualization
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...church, which plans to expand its earthly digital domain, first wed the celestial and the virtual about a year ago, catering primarily to the 80% of Filipinos who are Catholic. the CBCP's website offers church teachings and directives. E-mail is also "filtered." And just to make sure no one gives in to temptation, If you tap into one of the forbidden destinations, up pops a message to steel your resolve: "thank god you're not able to access that bad site...
...involves presenting surgeons with simulations of rare abnormalities. "Simulators give you a way to make things go wrong," says Jeff Ustin, a trained surgeon now studying electrical engineering at Berkeley. Further out on the edge is a research project at Yale that is looking at performing surgery in a virtual environment and storing it for future automated use. A team of medical technicians would pop the patient into a surgical machine, something like slotting in a piece of toast, taking him out when he was done. But that's a long time from now, in a galaxy far, far away...
Technology is tilting the balance of political power away from government and toward the individual. Multinational interest groups like Greenpeace and anti-globalism protesters can promote their aims and coordinate world campaigns instantly. Dissidents, rebels and terrorists can publicize, organize and attack in virtual territory beyond state control and reach wide audiences without trusting their message to the filter of the media. Thirteen of the 29 groups listed as "terrorists" by the U.S. State Department maintain websites. "Hactivist" groups are pushing causes from Kashmiri separatism to Palestinian nationhood to Brazilian anticorporatism. Though it's difficult to differentiate political campaigns from...
...Katie, my daughter, overrides the "I'm in a virtual meeting" message on my video visor. She's ticked. Sam, her clone, has been teasing...
...meant to play virtual golf with a friend in Sydney but there's a line to use the holographic projector at my local corner deli. (The guy in front of me is in Bangkok. For more than an hour...