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MARC PRENSKY STARES at his computer monitor as it pours a treatise on derivatives into his brain. The Bankers Trust vice president doesn`t scan the screen, he fixes on a single point;and lets his eyes inhale. Meet Vortex, a speed-reading system that turns the old Evelyn Wood technique on its head. Instead of grasping a paragraph at a glance, you catch the text word by word. "The Nintendo generation is entering the work force," explains Prensky, who is considering using this fast-paced technology to train employees at Bankers Trust. "We are trying to develop Twitch-Speed Training techniques so the Nintendo babies don`t get bored." Bankers Trust got the speed-reading idea from Cliff High, a computer programmer in Washington State. Tucked away in a log cabin among cedar and fir trees on the outskirts of Olympia, High runs Tenax Software Engineering, an outfit that does Read the full article with a Free Trial at KeepMedia.Speed Reading.(Brief Article) Nation, The , February, 2000
Content provided in partnership with Read the full article with a Free Trial of HighBeam Research » Third World workers aren`t just counting votes for the literati-they`re also producing quality texts for many European and US publishers. If you`ve curled up lately with a book from HarperCollins, Westview, Lippincott or Oxford University Press, there`s a good chance it was typeset or edited by underpaid workers in Barbados. There, a company called Offshore Keyboarding employs 350 data processors-mostly young women-to prepare manuscripts for printing in the publishers` home countries. Book-production outsourcing goes back more than a decade, according to Shane Lynagh. He Read the full article with a Free Trial of HighBeam Research »HighBeam Research Members: View the full text of this article » Try HighBeam Research for seven days of free unlimited access to the most powerful research engine on the web. Access superior sources and sophisticated research tools, including the HighBeam Library archive of over 32,000,000 articles from thousands of business and consumer magazines and journals, transcripts of TV & radio news and entertainment broadcasts, maps, images and more! Speed reading index
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