items of interest August 3, 1998 Issue

items of interest

News and trends worth watching

with contributions from Wendy Wasserstein

Millennium pioneers

"In 1998 we are looking directly at not only the millennium, but an information revolution. But when most people wake up in the morning they don't generally ... think, 'How am I going to deal with this upcoming millennium?' Or, '... there's an information revolution, I better stock up on frozen veggies.' Mostly we think about 'How will I get through this day?' or 'Can I control where my life's going?' ... In the era of an information revolution we must be careful not merely to gather the state of our nation from electronic sourees but to hear about life from those who are living it."

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein
Speaking at Merrimack College's Commencement,
North Andover, Massachusetts
May 17, 1998

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