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Topic: Global Village

Vital Stats

The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:

Most admires:

Steve Jobs

Favorite possession(s):

Apple Computer, Windows computer, PDA

Currently has on their coffee table:

PC World, Mac Today, Lonely Planet guide

Interest(s):

Computers, English, Travelling

Likes to wear:

Traditional tribal dress

Favorite destination(s):

Britain

Favorite online activity(s):

Downloading MP3's, Finding ringtones for their phone

Membership(s):

World Vision

Favorite quote(s):

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
"Grove giveth and Gates taketh away." - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands

Expert Talk

The Brain has selected interesting relevant sentences from the web. It automatically assigned them to some of our fictitious experts based on their personalities.

Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor

Global Village or Global Pillage: Economic Reconstruction From the Bottom Up.

Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk

By emphasizing experiential and cooperative learning Concordia Language Villages provides an ideal setting for villagers to internalize and act upon global issues.

Zhang Xian Qian,
Ex-Olympic Swimmer

Shanghai or Hong Kong and southern Global Language Villages sites What is the cost and when is it due?

Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur

Provided support to Global Village Communication by writing the installer script for the TelePort Platinum Installer which ships with the 28.
Some Global Village modems can't properly detect a busy signal when dialing certain types of terminal servers.
Global Village TelePort Platinum (external, in Australia) --- Add X1 or X3 to init string to ignore dial tone.

Astrid Schuhmann,
Backpacker

Global Village Backpackers - Independet backpackers hostel company in Canada with jobs available for gap students from the UK.
ADDITIONAL NIGHTS can be reserved in Vancouver or Banff via the Global Village Backpackers Hostel.
ADDITIONAL OVERNIGHTS can be reserved in Vancouver or Banff via the Global Village Backpackers Hostel.

Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman

USR Sportster x2 and Global Village Teleport x2 and SupraExpress 56e modems can all be updated now.
Global Village's fax software is superb too; including excellent OCR (optical character recognition) software for use with incoming faxes.
Global Village Software (FAX MODEM Software and Firmware updates)

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