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January 1998 New Thinking

The online community myth
January 26, 1998: ‘Communities’ is one of the most abused words today. I know I have abused it and I have seen it belted all over the place, slapped, punched, kicked and beaten into sentences where it simply just doesn’t belong. More

Genes, bits and bytes
January 19, 1998: There has been a lot of talk over the last week with regard to cloning. Of course, the science of cloning didn’t come down in the last shower, and animals have been cloned already, but now we’re talking about human cloning. More

Digitally unstable
January 12, 1998: Last week, Amazon.com, one of the Internet’s best-known businesses, disappeared for 11 hours. In the same period, a hacker caused an outage at the UNICEF website. Also, ‘smurfing,’ an approach whereby a hacker overloads a server was seen to be on the rise. More

Consumer computers
January 05, 1998: According to Computer Intelligence, in January 1997, 7.2 percent of PCs were selling for less than USD1,000, while 18.9 percent were selling for more than USD2,000. By October, 35.8 percent were selling for less than USD1,000 and 8.5 percent were selling for more than USD2,000. More

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