Word: virtualization
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...story short, you can have Julia Scher from MIT sharing a space with someone from Wu-Tang Clan, or Mariko Mori, a conceptual artist singing a Buddhist mantra, skipping to Kool Keith talking about being a schizophrenic. This is the theater of voices. On another level, it's entirely virtual. None of these people interacted with one another; they interacted with these beats and fragments of sound I put together. So it's totally conceptual about presence and absence. So whether or not I write my liner notes to the music, there's many ways of taking a record apart...
Some 1999 models shape up as virtual bet-your-company gambles. General Motors has sunk more than $3 billion into its new Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck to appeal to suburbanites who want cargo capacity and a rugged look without any loss of creature comforts. GM put its money under the hood and into the transmission with the aim of creating a quiet ride and responsive handling both on and off the road. To recoup its investment, the company hopes for Silverado sales totaling $14 billion--a sum equal to Microsoft's revenues for all of fiscal 1998--in the next...
...much more confident Williams, with full-throated ease, belted the lyrics. Continuing, she switched to an electric guitar and playfully smiled as she tried to hit every high note of the terrifically lustful "Hot Blood." Williams delved deeper and deeper into blues until the crowd was in a virtual frenzy over the metallic guitar solos so vigorous they seemed super-human. The crowd bravely vibrating in their chairs, yearned to stand. Many even made due by dancing in their seats. Williams joked: "Gee, I feel weird singing this blues stuff in a theater, y'all should be standing...
...happy to tell us about the morally dubious purpose for which Pacific Blue was built -? that is, to simulate nuclear explosions and keep America?s stockpile of nukes in tip-top working order. No matter that struggling third-world superpowers like India want such virtual atom blasts included in the international test-ban treaty. The veep is more interested in the computer?s other potential uses -? like predicting climate change. So how about a Gore-Pacific Blue ticket...
...degree-granting institutions, both public and private, two-year and four-year. The Carnegie Foundation, which developed the first college classification back in 1970, is overhauling its taxonomy to reflect the changes in many institutions. The explosion in the number of commuter colleges and, most recently, "virtual" universities that teach over the Internet poses a new dimension to these earlier classifications. Currently, only 1 out of every 4 college students in the U.S. is an 18-to-21-year-old attending a traditional four-year college on a full-time basis...