Word: virtualization
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...Were it not for the embarrassing trendiness of conflating the academic with the plebeian, I would call Suffolk Downs postmodern, since everything there is virtual. Massachusetts thoroughbreds run live races four days a week, but nobody watches them. Instead, since the majority of on-track wagering is done on races beamed in by satellite from the major tracks in New York, Florida, Louisiana and California, the regulars watch all of the races--including the ones happening 50 feet away--on television. The tracks have names which are alternately pastoral and geriatric: the Fair Grounds, Bay Meadows, Oaklawn Park, Turf Paradise...
...plains are littered with the bodies of pioneering publications like Internet Business, the Web, the Net and Virtual City. So it's all the more remarkable that a 22-month-old weekly called the Industry Standard is already living up to its moniker. Based in San Francisco and owned by Boston computer trade publisher IDG, the Standard set out in April 1998 to grab Internet business readers by appropriating the authority of a newsweekly--right down to the red banner and text-heavy layout. Says former design director Daniel Carter: "We wanted to come out and sound like we knew...
...Individuals have come to sew and knit on their own, but the social side of crafts also adds to the thread and yarn sceneoa virtual knitting and sewing subculture. Rumors floated about a group called iStitch and Bitchi in Leverett. Donna R. Winston i01 admits to taking part in an inebriated knitting bee. iKnitting is relaxing as is drinking,i she explains about the combination event. iIive also thought of knitting something and then going out wearing it.i Although this fusion of wool and alcohol only happened once, Donna plans on forming a more regular group of knitters that would...
...groove to the silence. Obviously, her moves impressed. She got the gig and had to wear the skimpy costume: ipatent leather booty shortsothatis the fashion term.i The concept for the commercial was four foreigners in a car coaxing the South African driver into buying a Honda from a virtual car dealership. Her part included rubbing her legs and saying random English words. iAt the end they had each of us do funky dances around the car,i she says...
...thought movies would kill live theater. We thought television would kill movies. Now we ask whether video/computer/ virtual-reality images streaming into our homes will keep us on the couch Saturday night...