Monthly Archives: November 1999

The 20th Century

35 days to go… “There are those who predict that (internationalisation) in its present form will go on and on base their belief in the power of technology, whether in aviation, the computer, the satellite, or a host of other fields. But the biggest single influence on the rapid shrinking of the world is not [...]

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The 20th Century

35 days to go… “There are those who predict that (internationalisation) in its present form will go on and on base their belief in the power of technology, whether in aviation, the computer, the satellite, or a host of other fields. But the biggest single influence on the rapid shrinking of the world is not [...]

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The 20th Century

In 1930 it cost $244.65 for a three minute phone call from London to New York. Today it costs less than $4.00 In 1980 IBM predicted that the world market for personal computers over the next 10 years would be 275 000 By 1990, there were more than 60 million PC users.

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The 20th Century

(39 days until the end of the ‘popular elected century’ as opposed to the end of the real 20th century that doesn’t really end until 31 December 2000). In Freud’s opinion, it is true that women gains nothing by studying, and that on the whole woman’s lot will not improve thereby. Moreover, women cannot equal [...]

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The 20th Century

Date: Thursday, November 18, 1999, 11:42:46 AM Subject: The 20th Century ===8<==============Original message text=============== With only 43 days left until the end of the 20th Century it is possibly important for us, as members of a public institution that is perhaps reflective of and dogged by late 20th Century nihilism, apathy and expediency, to think [...]

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(Mediacircus) The 20th Century

Date: Thursday, November 25, 1999, 9:09:57 AM Subject: : Re: [mediacircus] The 20th Century ===8<==============Original message text=============== > > >But if microsoft hadn’t grown like this, then we would be without >microsoft-monopoly <http://www.ms-monopoly.com> > >> At the end of the Twentieth Century there are a few stark realities. >> Australia’s Gross Domestic Product, that is [...]

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