Charles Platt Quotes

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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…
• The landscape of the Net has changed; that cyberfrontier of the past has become a teeming city of people, transactions, and businesses.
• 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,…
• The always-on economy, by definition, depends upon continuous energy.
• Unsurprisingly, an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) - once a luxury for room-sized computer installations - is now a standard item both in home offices and…
• When the International Space Station is finally launched, it will be fitted with special nickel-hydrogen batteries weighing a total of several tons, with a lifetime…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Watching cold fusion is like watching water boil in slow motion. First, sufficient deuterium has to penetrate the palladium electrode. This can take a few…
• 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…
• In Finland in the winter, when the sky is totally choked with clouds, the country becomes one big sensory deprivation tank.
• 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…
• 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…
• The public is eager for stories of True Cybercrime, and the media is happy to glamorize the subject. But when teenagers take the bait and…
• Misery is the stuff of comedy, if one can just live long enough to get over it.
• Personally, I believe that government, rather than money, tends to be the primary factor limiting the development of new technologies.
• If the 20th century taught us anything, it is to be cautious about the work impossible.

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