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A future at Wal-Mart may sound a less-than-stellar prospect, but it's a whole lot better than no future at all.
- Charles Platt
#Better
#Future
#Lot
#Sound
#Whole
Merchandise from Wal-Mart has become as ubiquitous as the water supply. Yet, still, the company is rebuked and reviled by anyone claiming a social conscience and is lambasted by legislators as if its bad behavior places it somewhere between investment bankers and the Taliban.
- Charles Platt
#Bad
#Behavior
#Company
#Places
#Water
As cyberspace matures into a totally immersive experience, I'm betting it will turn out to be fully odor-enabled.
- Charles Platt
#Betting
#Experience
#Out
#Turn
#Will
When you shop online, wouldn't you like to sample the bouquet of wines, the aroma of cigars, or the subtle fragrance of flowers before surrendering your credit card number? Surely more companies will want to aromatize their Web presence when they realize there's a device that can produce genuinely pleasing, authentic fragrances.
- Charles Platt
#Credit
#Fragrance
#More
#Realize
#Will
At 3-D Imax theaters, audiences have shown they are willing to pay a premium to wear headgear fitted with liquid-crystal lenses synchronized via infrared signals with the movie projector, which runs at twice the normal frame rate. These movie viewers plumb new depths in depth perception - they experience extreme realism.
- Charles Platt
#Experience
#Frame
#New
#Pay
#Perception
Everyone knows that the broadband era will breed a new generation of online services, but this is only half of the story. Like any innovation, broadband will inflict major changes on its environment. It will destroy, once and for all, the egalitarian vision of the Internet.
- Charles Platt
#Generation
#Innovation
#Internet
#Vision
Unsurprisingly, an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) - once a luxury for room-sized computer installations - is now a standard item both in home offices and all the networked tiers above, protecting servers and online service providers, Internet backbones, phone companies, and even cable TV networks.
- Charles Platt
#Home
#Internet
#Phone
#Power
#Service
The idea of an e-book has been around since the late 1970s, when researchers at Xerox PARC got on the case. Their prototype used millions of little magnetic particles, black on one side and white on the other, loosely embedded in the surface of a soft sheet of rubber.
- Charles Platt
#Black
#Late
#Side
#Soft
#White
The always-on economy, by definition, depends upon continuous energy.
- Charles Platt
#Continuous
#Depends
#Economy
#Energy
The public is eager for stories of True Cybercrime, and the media is happy to glamorize the subject. But when teenagers take the bait and live out our fantasies for us, we punish them for frightening us too much.
- Charles Platt
#Happy
#Live
#Media
#Too Much
#True
Misery is the stuff of comedy, if one can just live long enough to get over it.
- Charles Platt
#Comedy
#Enough
#Live
#Long
#Misery
The landscape of the Net has changed; that cyberfrontier of the past has become a teeming city of people, transactions, and businesses.
- Charles Platt
#Become
#City
#Landscape
#Past
#People
Scaremongering is an age-old political ritual. There are public officials who have benefited by playing up the 'hacker threat' so that they can win approval by cracking down on it.
- Charles Platt
#Down
#Hacker
#Political
#Who
#Win
If smart technology can transform 3-D from a crude novelty to a genuine visual enhancement, why shouldn't a sophisticated odor synthesizer follow a similar path?
- Charles Platt
#Genuine
#Path
#Smart
#Technology
#Why
When the International Space Station is finally launched, it will be fitted with special nickel-hydrogen batteries weighing a total of several tons, with a lifetime of just five years, requiring spares to be brought up from Earth at literally astronomical expense.
- Charles Platt
#Earth
#Lifetime
#Space
#Special
#Will
Watching cold fusion is like watching water boil in slow motion. First, sufficient deuterium has to penetrate the palladium electrode. This can take a few weeks. Then, if excess heat is generated during the next month or two, accurate temperature readings require extreme precautions to exclude environmental effects.
- Charles Platt
#Environmental
#Slow
#Watching
#Water
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