COVER STORY
For a long time now, observers of the American political sene have been pointing out how difficult it is to distinguish between what the Rpublican party stands for and what the Democratic party stands for.
Outlook Magazine - 3 January 2000
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He is the father of the Internet. But <b>Vinton Cerf</b> admits that when he, with his colleague Robert Kahn, invented TCP/IP - the computer language that gave birth to the Internet - he didn't know what he had unleashed. Currently Senior Vice-Presid
On issues ranging from 21st century computers to the revenue model for the Net to the challenges facing the entrepreneur of tomorrow...
When humankind opens a new door, it does not necessarily close all the others. All the medical triumphs of this century have not wiped out alternative medicine, instant and processed food has not taken away the pleasure of fresh food, nor have speedy
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He is the father of the Internet. But <b>Vinton Cerf</b> admits that when he, with his colleague Robert Kahn, invented TCP/IP - the computer language that gave birth to the Internet - he didn't know what he had unleashed. Currently Senior Vice-Presid
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On issues ranging from 21st century computers to the revenue model for the Net to the challenges facing the entrepreneur of tomorrow...
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Metal, parchment, bytes-the change gets easier with time
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The auto sector will see an oligopoly of sorts
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This is Patalkot - 2,000 feet below civilisation
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When humankind opens a new door, it does not necessarily close all the others. All the medical triumphs of this century have not wiped out alternative medicine, instant and processed food has not taken away the pleasure of fresh food, nor have speedy
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McKinsey managing-director Rajat Gupta is a firm believer in quality. And adds two more words - culture and meritocracy - to his life dictionary. That's the way the Indian head of the world's most respected management consultancy firm measures class
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Poet, painter, writer and composer, Rabindranath Tagore (1861- 1941), is modern India's intellectual totem pole; our only Nobel laureate in literature. In a virtual interview with Ajith Pillai, the founder of Vishwa Bharati University answers questio
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The shishyas of this new-age gurukul chant Vedic hymns to a cyber tune
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An e-mail interview with Sandipan Deb and Paromita Shastri, Noam Chomsky answers queries on the future of ideology and the polity to come.
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He is called the Nostradamus of the digital world. Dr Nicholas Negroponte studied at MIT where as a graduate student he specialised in the then new field of computer-aided design. He joined the Institute faculty in 1966 and was also a visiting profes
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A nation-state is a state legitimised by the people.
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Below are some of the areas where I have completed research for some new machines:
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Some mechanical inventions for the benefit of mankind
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Will lab-created life mean the death of lust, language, Viagra?
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Imagination can be footloose, or a third eye into the future. How did AD 2000 seem 100 years ago? In 1899, a cigarette company asked French artist Jean Marc Cote to do a set of visuals on the third millennium. The firm went bust, and the project sank
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Rarely do people actually want to chat, mostly they are there to pick each other up and type sex together. How do you type sex? Well, you just imagine what you would be doing if you were really together, and type it on your qwerty keyboard.
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Buffeted by its contending spaces, Hyderabad confronts the future
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My advice: look forward to next Saturday but hold the frenzy. And approach the future with both hope and humility.
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K. Satchidanandan
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Call me behind times, but technology and I never took to each other
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A wo/man’s search for cyber-intimacy yields a crop of the weird and the (few) wonderful
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The science of cryonics claims that if you can freeze a dead man at ultra-low temperatures quickly, before the essential brain structures have degenerated, it will one day be possible to bring him back to life.
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Technology will make human beings their own ancestors
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A thousand years from now, for the vast majority of the human race, the Home Planet may be a world of legends, lost among the star-fields of constellations we would never recognise.
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Love has been, and will remain, the only device that works in sex.
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It was terror. The best part of it was, it was all perfectly legal.
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How to push the right buttons and transform the nation
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In a freewheeling interview with Shantanu Guha Ray, Dr Kalam talks of his vision for India.