Word: virtualization
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...always sold--in any medium and in every era. Yet the Internet has been virtual Viagra for the adult industry, with 1998 online earnings topping $1 billion, according to Forrester Research, up about 30% from 1997. Lately, the only things selling better than sex on the Net are Net companies' initial public offerings. Entrepreneurs are seeking to combine the trends by taking their online porn companies public...
Naive viewers may think The Matrix is just a cool way to pass the time while sitting in the Phantom Menace waiting room. They should think again, breathe deep, get strapped in for a brain-popping trip. The Matrix is a careering cyberride without the headset, a virtual masterpiece. Every other movie out there is the blue pill. This...
...Gibson's Neuromancer, the 1986 cyberpunk classic about a computer cowboy on the run. "It'd be near impossible to make a movie out of that," says Larry. "We knew the way to make it relevant was to turn what we view as the real world into a virtual reality...
...battle is being won. "The refugee situation has eased off," reports TIME East European bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. "NATO has rushed in the infrastructure and quickly set up all the nuts and bolts" to take care of the refugees' immediate needs. Albania has even passed a law giving NATO virtual carte blanche to do whatever it needs to win the war and help the refugees. As a result, unsanitary camps have been dismantled and most everyone moved to relatively clean and functional facilities...
...romantic, between the poetic and the scatological. He has starred in a movie (director Hype Williams' Belly), performed high-profile duets (with Mary J. Blige and Lauryn Hill), and dodged death (when his friend and fellow New Yorker Biggie Smalls was shot and killed in 1997, Nas went into virtual seclusion, fearing for his life). He's proud but not bombastic, he's casual in tone but almost always serious in content, and although his raps are deeply personal, he strives for the prophetic. He's a craftsman of words; he wants to tell a story, communicate ideas, not just...