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2000 : WHAT IS TODAY'S MOST IMPORTANT UNREPORTED STORY? [1]

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Bart Kosko [4]
Information Scientist and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Law, University of Southern California; Author, Noise, Fuzzy Thinking
The most important unreported story

The most important unreported story at the dawn of the Information Age has two parts: (1) The last Sunday of the 20th century passed and the United States Government still continued to outlaw first-class mail on Sunday and (2) no one complained.

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