Richard Thieme

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Scents and Sensibility

Without leaving your desk, you’ll soon be able to smell the roses. Using DigiScents‘ iSmell, ”a personal scent synthesizer,“ now in beta testing, you’ll be able to sniff the aroma of, say, fresh chocolate, while you work the Net. Or invent your own scents and add them to e-mails or......
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Hacking the Future

illustration by Lloyd Miller LET'S GET OUR DEFINITIONS STRAIGHT. LAST WEEK AN UNprecedented wave of attacks hit Yahoo, eBay, Amazon and dozens of other sites, jamming the Web's normally smooth operations. This week, President Clinton will hold a cyber-summit of top law-enforcement officials and Internet executives to combat the "hackers."......