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- 671: The North American Free Trade Agreement
- ... always be two sides to this issue. Each faction will take and exploit a given statistic any way that they can to try and fortify their position. When separating the carefully gathered facts from the fiction, it is hard to see how the NAFTA has had any seriously detrimental effects has on the U.S. This trade agreement is certainly still very young, but apparently is reaching higher and higher levels ...
- 672: The Great Depression
- ... place to work to support themselves and their family (Drewry and O'connor 560- 561). John Steinbeck, born in 1902, grew up during the Depression near the fertile Salinas Valley and wrote many books of fiction based on his background and experiences during that time and area of the country. One of his great works would be the Grapes of Wrath In this book, Steinbeck describes the farmers plight during the ...
- 673: Creative Writing: The Big Scoop
- ... s Citizens" that has been causing so much uproar in many states and even in the government. Recently, people have claimed that I fantasized everything in the report and that I should work in the fiction field in stead of journalism, so here is the exact way I received my information for my story. I will start from the top and I will try not to miss a detail so you ...
- 674: History of the Internet
- ... a personal side project. The feeling at that time was email had no significant use in this new network medium. He began using the software for personal use to distribute a mailing list for Science Fiction lovers. The defense agency quickly put its foot down. Email reappeared several months later after the agency was convinced of its benefits. It is of no surprise after these two significant events that volume increased ...
- 675: A New Technology
- ... pesky personal identification numbers, or PINs. Instead of asking you for a PIN, the ATM will scan the iris of your eye (thats the colored part) to identify you. It may sound like science fiction, but these ATMs are already in use in Tokyo and London, and a few of American banks following suit this summer. "This is still a pilot trial system," says Rob van Naarden, vice president of ...
- 676: Virtual Reality Technology and Society
- ... any three- dimensional reality implemented with stereo viewing goggles and "data" gloves. Inspiration On another level, outside of actual research and development atmospheres, a third term was coined by William Gibson, a popular cyberpunk science-fiction writer of the '80s (Churbuck 1990, 154). He used the term cyberspace in his book Neuromancer in 1984 to refer to a single virtual reality that could be experienced simultaneously by people worldwide: "Cyberspace. A ...
- 677: Freedom of Speech on the Internet
- ... biggest groups that combated the censorship law is the CIEC (Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition). The CIEC found and posted on their website some obvious problems with the CDA. This law would prohibit texts of classic fiction such as the Catcher in the Ryer, Ulysees, Seven Dirty Words by George Carlin, and other materials which, although offensive to some, enjoy the full protection of the First Amendment if published in a newspaper ...
- 678: Censor the Internet?
- ... First Amendment." Hotwired.com. June 2, 1998. "Silencing the Net-The Threat to Freedom of Expression Online." Human Rights Watch. May 1996. Sterling, Bruce. "Short History of the Internet." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. September 1997.
- 679: Nanotechnology: Immortality Or Total Annihilation?
- ... Engines of Creation" published in 1986 should be developed early in the 21st century ("Unbounding" 116). However many scientists still argue that because nanotech has produced absolutely nothing physical, it should be regarded as science fiction (Garfinkel 111). Secondly, nano-doubters rely on scientific fact to condemn nanotech. For example it is argued that we are very far away from ever seeing nanotech due to the fact that when atoms get ...
- 680: The Electronic Computer
- ... Jacquard looms came into widespread use in the early 19th century, and their descendants are still used today. Charles Babbage is the inventor of that 19th century computer was a figure far more common in fiction than in real life - an eccentric mathematician. He applied the concept of the changeable program to the design of a programmable calculator, the Analytical Engine, which was never completed. Babbage's work was forgotten and ...
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