We are entering the century of the electron. Not the information century? The communications age? The bit era? Well, bits are electrons: small buckets of them in silicon capacitors, or propelled through metal wire, or (transformed into photons) oscillating through glass or air.
Peter W. Huber & Mark P. Mills City Journal Think of the skyscraper as America's great green gift to the planet. It packs more people onto less land, which leaves more wilderness undisturbed in other places, where the people aren't. The city gets Wall Street, Saks, the Met, and the Times Square crowds, which leaves…
“Eppur si muove” (“nevertheless, it does move”) Galileo declared, after this conviction. He dared to assert that it is the earth that rotates, not the sun. The ecclesiastical court disagreed.
A Mercedes at Comdex? There it was at the Las Vegas Convention Center, a CLK 55 coupe, and a test track, too – courtesy of its manufacturer, the first non-tech company to sponsor the world’s biggest computer trade show
