Footnotes:
    (1) Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, 1987

    (2) Slatalla, Michelle and Quittner, Joshua; Masters of Deception; HarperPerennial, 1995; pg. 38

    (3) Slatalla and Quittner, pg. 36

    (4) Slatella and Quittner, pg. 222 (5) San Jose Mercury News, "Meet the New Computer Whizzes," by Steve Lohr; 5/7/96

    (6) Negroponte, Nicholas; Being Digital, Vintage Books; 1995; pg. 227

    (7) Negroponte, pg. 229

    (8) ibid.

    (9) Negroponte, pg. 224

    (10) ibid.