It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology although one should be careful with such statements as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

People are naming it the Third Wave the Information Age etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies.

We shouldn't build a technology to colour or grey out what people say. The media in general is balanced although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on.

I enjoyed school - although I ran away on the first day. I'd reminded the teacher that it was nearly time for 'Watch With Mother' on TV.

Although I'm Australian I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!

To this day most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper although that's the event I had more success in.

Although in skating you compete with other people anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better learn more learn faster is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.

Although housing sales and starts have cooled to more typical levels the housing market remains strong and sound. Without the expansion of homeownership and the strength of our housing market our nation would not have the economic growth we are experiencing today.

Intensity like signal strength will generally fall off with distance from the source although it also depends on the local conditions and the pathway from the source to the point.

Although strength should fail the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.