Gleik
Created By: owenstevens
Last Modified: 12/21/06
Summary: This is a test the firstDictionary
his site is home for a few articles that may be of interest to the online community. For example, here's an article about cyberspace transforming the Oxford English Dictionary (and, not incidentally, the language, too). It was written for the New York Times Magazine, as was this: Get Out of My Namespace
— how, in our crowded world, we're encountering a radical
increase in collisions over names. Also possessiveness. Also confusion.
From:
http://www.around.com/James Gleick
Summary: James Gleick
From: http://www.around.com/Text
A Frontier That Is Building Itself .... Telephone companies and cable-television companies may not be able to keep their hands off each other, but blending our actual telephone and televisions will surely require a lot more than F.C.C approval. The video side of the informatlon superhighway is a one-way street and will remain so for a long time -- even if interactlve boxes someday do let us send a few bytes' worth of nay votes up the Iine toward Geraldo.
From:
http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/199310/msg00085.html
