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"After all, just in the last decade or two we've somehow found the time in the day to spend several hours on the Internet and the money in the budget not only to pay for broadband service, but to cover a second phone bill and a new monthly bill for television, formerly free. For the majority of Americans, spending more for better food is less a matter of ability than priority." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"UNICEF MAGIC - media activities and good ideas by, with and for children) Mind the gap The positive side of life in the electronic village described on pages 266-270 applies mainly to wealthier families, the sort of people who would read this book, and probably have broadband access, sophisticated viewing habits and a high level of media literacy. As such parents wise up to the pros and cons of twenty-first-century technology, they take steps to protect their children from harm and ensure they reap the many benefits of life in a digital world." - Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.) "There are now a vast number of websites offering information, advice and even virtual counselling services or parenting courses - as long as you have broadband, it's never been easier to call on the instant advice of people who've been there before. As I trawled the web investigating these sites, I felt as though I was visiting a succession of 'wise men and women'. Instead of dispensing their wisdom from a cave on the edge of the village, they're now out there doing it via the Internet. Similarly, television is regularly used to spread good ideas and useful knowledge." - Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.)

"As access to the Internet becomes more commonplace and broadband connectivity supports affordable worldwide multimedia distribution, our sense of who we are and how we relate is changing. Though mindshare is inherently limited, and new media outlets don't tend to gain mass audiences, a "long tail" of bloggers and multimedia users—as Wired magazine editor Chris Anderson calls it—is developing smaller, loyal audiences and becoming part of a global conversation. Media circulates through social networks with many dynamic nodes and connections, repeatedly shared rather than wholly consumed." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "The prototype "green machine," unveiled in Tunisia at a United Nation's technology summit, runs on Linux software and sports a color LCD screen, 500-megahertz processor, wireless broadband, DVD drive, and 500 megabytes of flash memory. Mesh networking capability allows the machine to communicate with its nearest neighbors, creating an ad hoc local network. A hand crank allows users to charge the battery far away from the electrical grid. The goal for production models is for one minute of cranking to generate enough battery power for a hundred minutes of use." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Tinnitus retraining programs: These involve counseling and using broadband noise exposure, a type of wavelength that we are commonly exposed to on a daily basis, to habituate a person to tinnitus. TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE Traditional Chinese medicine categorizes tinnitus into two common types: the first is due to excess heat in the liver and the second is due to deficiency in the kidney. Herbs: The herbs and patent herbal pills listed below are available from Chinese herbalists." - Marshall Editions, 1000 Cures for 200 Ailments: Integrated Alternative and Conventional Treatments for the Most Common Illnesses (Get the book.)

"TURNING BYTES INTO ATOMS In an economy where atomic structural formulas for building household furniture could be delivered over the Internet to personal fabricators, broadband Internet becomes the backbone. To transmit terabytes of data, we'll need big data pipes and superfast switches that let this data go everywhere it needs to go. Those networks will be everything from fiber optic to wireless. Cisco, Nokia, Ericsson, Nortel, and AOL/Time Warner are among the emerging giants of Internet broadband." - Douglas Mulhall, Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World (Get the book.) "They're no longer tied to one location, because broadband lets them "be" in the control tower of every airport on earth. They work from whatever location they want, as long as it has broadband. Besides that, many traffic controllers are now Robo Sapiens. For Saint Thomas residents, the world has changed dramatically. Freedom from hurricanes, along with zero air-conditioning costs and rapid mainland access, has brought a year-round tourism and business boom. Thousands of mainlanders have come with virtual offices in tow." - Douglas Mulhall, Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World (Get the book.) "These were slow to catch up, with the result that too few users could take advantage of so much broadband. Worse yet for those companies, new compression technology began to stuff many more signals down the same pipe, thus drastically reducing the need for more fiber-optic cable. Not to be outdone in such overspending, European companies spent an eye-popping $ 125 billion bidding for government licenses on "G3" wireless-the so-called third generation broadband wireless. This may prove to be overpriced,6 depending on how the markets and technologies develop." - Douglas Mulhall, Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World (Get the book.) "The burst technology bubble of 2000 had a dampening effect on, for example, investment into bringing broadband wireless to the marketplace. In the rush to take advantage of the "new economy," companies spent more than $35 billion building 100 million miles of fiber-optic networks. In 2001 these had about 95 percent unused capacities.5 This was partially due to "old economy" connections that ran "the last mile" to households. These were slow to catch up, with the result that too few users could take advantage of so much broadband." - Douglas Mulhall, Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World (Get the book.)

"Originally intended to be a "wire replacement" technology for both computers and cellular phones, the Bluetooth specification has since been expanded to compete somewhat with the more powerful Wi-Fi wireless networking standard, boot the process of turning on a computer system, broadband a high-speed Internet connection (faster than a typical dial-up connection), accomplished via ISDN, cable, DSL, satellite, Ti, or T3 lines. browser a program that translates the hypertext markup language of the World Wide Web into viewable Web pages." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) "Computer Attacks Any computers connected to the Internet—especially those with a persistent broadband connection—are also at risk of attack from other users. Unless proper firewall software is in place, a computer can be victim to data theft, data destmction, data diddling, computer hijacking, and denial-of-service attacks that overload a computer or network by bombing it with thousands of simultaneous requests for data. Most computer attacks are aimed at large Web sites or corporate computer networks." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

"Or software? Or broadband? Or plastic? By extension, one would have to admit the possibility that scientific marvels await in the future that would be difficult for people of our time to imagine. Humankind may indeed come up with some fantastic method for running civilization on seawater, or molecular organic nanomachines, or harnessing the dark matter of the universe. But I'd argue that such miracles may lie on the far shore of the Long Emergency, or may never happen at all. It is possible that the fossil fuel efflorescence was a one-shot deal for the human race." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

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