“Teachers don't just teach; they can be vital personalities who help young people to mature, to understand the world, and to understand themselves. A good education consists of much more than...”
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Charles Platt was born in London, England, and moved to New York City in 1970. In 1994 he co-founded a cryonics organization called CryoCare in 1994. He was a senior writer at Wired magazine for several years. He is the author of over 40 fiction and nonfiction books, including science-fiction novels such as The Silicon Man and Protektor. His non-fiction works are on the subjects of computer technology and cryonics. In addition to writing, he is a journalist and a computer programmer. He was an editor at three different New York publishing houses, and he designed and edited the British magazine New Worlds.
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“Teachers don't just teach; they can be vital personalities who help young people to mature, to understand the world, and to understand themselves. A good education consists of much more than...”
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“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 of just five years, requi...”
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“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 live out our fantasies for us, we punish them for fr...”
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“Unsurprisingly, an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) - once a luxury for room-sized computer installations - is now a standard item both in home offices and all the networked tiers above, p...”
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“In Finland in the winter, when the sky is totally choked with clouds, the country becomes one big sensory deprivation tank.”
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“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 using a form of wate...”
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“If smart technology can transform 3-D from a crude novelty to a genuine visual enhancement, why shouldn't a sophisticated odor synthesizer follow a similar path?”
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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 with the movie projector, wh...”
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“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 never work reliably or generate enough...”
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“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 of little magnetic particles, black on one side and...”
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“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 and is lambasted by legislators...”
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“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 errors. Not many had...”
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“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 weeks. Then, if excess heat is gene...”
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“When you shop online, wouldn't you like to sample the bouquet of wines, the aroma of cigars, or the subtle fragrance of flowers before surrendering your credit card number? Surely more compa...”
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“The landscape of the Net has changed; that cyberfrontier of the past has become a teeming city of people, transactions, and businesses.”
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