I came home first class—up the front end with the toffs—semi-anaesthetised throughout the trip by caviar and free champagne—and to hell with frugality and the conservation of resources.

“How nice,she responded to his invitation, “but I've got a blockbuster of a headache. I'm paying for last night. Call me tomorrow, will you?

A 200 megasample per second flash A/D converter was built on a standard digital 5V 0.6u CMOS process in an area of 1.5 square millimeters.

The multimediatization of the lifeworld does not, as is often suggested, reduce people to solipsistic engagement with the world—living in their own personal information space or what Peter Sloterdijk describes as the bubble of our individualized media sphere (2004).