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If the 20th century taught us anything, it is to be cautious about the work impossible.
~ Charles Platt
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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
May
No Future
Prospect
Sound
Than
Wal-Mart
Whole
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As cyberspace matures into a totally immersive experience, I'm betting it will turn out to be fully odor-enabled.
~ Charles Platt
Betting
Cyberspace
Experience
Fully
Out
Totally
Turn
Will
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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
Audiences
Depth
Depths
Experience
Extreme
Fitted
Frame
In-Depth
Lenses
Movie
New
Normal
Pay
Perception
Premium
Rate
Realism
Runs
Shown
Signals
Theaters
Twice
Via
Viewers
Wear
Which
Willing
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Despite (or because of) a free public school system, millions of teenagers enter the work force without marketable skills. So why would anyone expect them to be well paid?
~ Charles Platt
Anyone
Because
Despite
Enter
Expect
Force
Free
Millions
Paid
Public
Public School
School
School System
Skills
System
Teenagers
Them
Well
Why
Without
Work
Would
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Even if major funding is obtained for cold fusion, conceivably the phenomenon could suffer from problems as intractable as those of hot fusion. It may never work reliably or generate enough energy to be commercially viable.
~ Charles Platt
Cold
Commercially
Could
Energy
Enough
Even
Funding
Fusion
Generate
Hot
Major
May
Never
Obtained
Phenomenon
Problems
Suffer
Those
Viable
Work
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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
Any
Breed
Broadband
Changes
Destroy
Egalitarian
Environment
Era
Everyone
Generation
Half
Inflict
Innovation
Internet
Knows
Like
Major
New
New Generation
Once
Online
Only
Services
Story
Vision
Will
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If low-temperature fusion does exist and can be perfected, power generation could be decentralized. Each home could heat itself and produce its own electricity, probably using a form of water as fuel. Even automobiles might be cold-fusion powered.
~ Charles Platt
Automobiles
Could
Decentralized
Does
Each
Electricity
Even
Exist
Form
Fuel
Fusion
Generation
Heat
Home
Itself
Might
Own
Power
Powered
Produce
Using
Water
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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
Crude
Enhancement
Follow
Genuine
Novelty
Odor
Path
Similar
Smart
Sophisticated
Technology
Transform
Visual
Why
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In Finland in the winter, when the sky is totally choked with clouds, the country becomes one big sensory deprivation tank.
~ Charles Platt
Becomes
Big
Choked
Clouds
Country
Deprivation
Finland
Sensory
Sky
Tank
Totally
Winter
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In the early 1970s, phone phreaks manipulated the long-distance system using blue boxes that they built from sketchy photocopied schematics that were often riddled with errors. Not many had the skill to do this. Phreaking was restricted to a select few.
~ Charles Platt
1970s
Blue
Boxes
Built
Early
Errors
Few
Had
Long-Distance
Manipulated
Many
Often
Phone
Restricted
Riddled
Select
Skill
System
Using
Were
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I've always resented the force of attraction that traps me here on Planet Earth. It makes me feel like a bug stuck to a piece of duct tape. Ever since my teenage years, when I used to read a lot of science fiction and took it much too seriously, I've dreamed of somehow reaching escape velocity. I am, you might say, anti-gravity.
~ Charles Platt
Always
Am
Attraction
Bug
Dreamed
Earth
Escape
Ever
Feel
Fiction
Force
Here
I Am
Like
Lot
Makes
Me
Might
Much
Piece
Planet
Planet Earth
Reaching
Read
Say
Science
Science Fiction
Seriously
Since
Somehow
Stuck
Tape
Teenage
Teenage Years
Too
Took
Traps
Used
Velocity
Years
You
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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
Anyone
Bad
Bad Behavior
Bankers
Become
Behavior
Between
Claiming
Company
Conscience
Investment
Legislators
Merchandise
Places
Reviled
Social
Somewhere
Still
Supply
Taliban
Ubiquitous
Wal-Mart
Water
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Misery is the stuff of comedy, if one can just live long enough to get over it.
~ Charles Platt
Comedy
Enough
Get
Just
Live
Long
Misery
Over
Over It
Stuff
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Our information network is much better protected than our railroad network, and someone who cracks a system is able to cause far less human damage than someone who derails a train. Why, then, has 'computer crime' caused so much hysteria? Perhaps because the public is so willing - eager, even - to be scared by bogeymen.
~ Charles Platt
Able
Because
Better
Cause
Caused
Computer
Cracks
Crime
Damage
Eager
Even
Far
Far Less
Human
Hysteria
Information
Less
Much
Network
Our
Perhaps
Protected
Public
Railroad
Scared
Someone
System
Than
Then
Train
Who
Why
Willing
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Personally, I believe that government, rather than money, tends to be the primary factor limiting the development of new technologies.
~ Charles Platt
Believe
Development
Factor
Government
I Believe
I Believe That
Limiting
Money
New
New Technologies
Personally
Primary
Rather
Technologies
Tends
Than
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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
Age-Old
Approval
Cracking
Down
Hacker
Officials
Playing
Political
Public
Public Officials
Ritual
Threat
Up
Who
Win
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The always-on economy, by definition, depends upon continuous energy.
~ Charles Platt
Continuous
Definition
Depends
Economy
Energy
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The blunt tools of legislation or union power can force a corporation to pay higher wages, but if employees don't create an equal amount of additional value, there's no net gain.
~ Charles Platt
Additional
Amount
Blunt
Corporation
Create
Employees
Equal
Force
Gain
Higher
Legislation
Net
Pay
Power
Tools
Union
Value
Wages
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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
1970s
Around
Been
Black
Case
Embedded
Got
Has-Been
Idea
Late
Little
Loosely
Magnetic
Millions
Other
Particles
Prototype
Researchers
Rubber
Sheet
Side
Since
Soft
Surface
Used
White
Xerox
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