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Charles Platt

English Author

Born: May 9, 1945

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Misery is the stuff of comedy, if one can just live long enough to get over it. Charles Platt

Comedy Long Live Enough Misery Stuff Over Over It Get Just

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 generated during the next month or two, accurate temperature readings require extreme precautions to exclude environmental effects. Charles Platt

Environmental Water Slow First Few Cold Extreme Month Fusion Penetrate Temperature Slow Motion Weeks Excess Take Exclude Like Readings Motion Effects Accurate Heat Then Next Require Boil Sufficient Watching Two

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, which runs at twice the normal frame rate. These movie viewers plumb new depths in depth perception - they experience extreme realism. Charles Platt

Experience Perception Pay Frame Extreme Signals Willing Runs Wear Rate New Audiences Normal Fitted Via Movie In-Depth Which Realism Theaters Infrared Depth Lenses Depths Viewers Premium Shown Twice

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 companies will want to aromatize their Web presence when they realize there's a device that can produce genuinely pleasing, authentic fragrances. Charles Platt

You Will Before Fragrance Pleasing Web Wines Online More Device Bouquet Like Surely Genuinely Surrendering Authentic Shop Sample Want Subtle Realize Produce Your Companies Credit Card Credit Card Presence Flowers Number

As cyberspace matures into a totally immersive experience, I'm betting it will turn out to be fully odor-enabled. Charles Platt

Experience Will Out Totally Betting Turn Cyberspace Fully

The always-on economy, by definition, depends upon continuous energy. Charles Platt

Energy Definition Economy Continuous Depends

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, requiring spares to be brought up from Earth at literally astronomical expense. Charles Platt

Space Will Earth Finally Several Batteries Station Astronomical Total Brought Lifetime Weighing Years Fitted Up Five Expense Just Literally Space Station Spares Requiring Special International International Space Station Tons

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 energy to be commercially viable. Charles Platt

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 white on the other, loosely embedded in the surface of a soft sheet of rubber. Charles Platt

Black White Other Late Side Has-Been Embedded Case Magnetic Idea Since Particles Xerox Sheet Around Loosely Prototype Got Surface Been Little Used Researchers Millions Rubber Soft

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 the skill to do this. Phreaking was restricted to a select few. Charles Platt

Phone Few System Restricted Select Had Long-Distance Boxes Built Were Errors Blue Often Manipulated Skill Riddled Many Using Early

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 frightening us too much. Charles Platt

Our information network is much better protected than our railroad network, and someone who cracks a system is able to cause far less human damage than someone who derails a train. Why, then, has 'computer crime' caused so much hysteria? Perhaps because the public is so willing - eager, even - to be scared by bogeymen. Charles Platt

Better Cause Crime Our System Willing Scared Able Someone Network Computer Hysteria Perhaps Protected Because Caused Train Than Cracks Human Information Public Far Then Much Far Less Less Who Even Why Railroad Eager Damage

Scaremongering is an age-old political ritual. There are public officials who have benefited by playing up the 'hacker threat' so that they can win approval by cracking down on it. Charles Platt

Win Political Hacker Down Approval Threat Ritual Up Cracking Officials Public Age-Old Public Officials Who Playing

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