In a time when Madison Avenue was deploying one-size-fits-all national ad campaigns, Demographics and its lone computer used public phone books to compile lists for direct mailing of campaign material.
The "business center," similarly, was a lone Internet-linked computer in the lobby.
Pitchfork favors introspective music that's ideal for a lone headphone-wearing computer user: Grizzly Bear's shimmering, evolving, extended daydreams and songwriters like Chan Marshall, a k a Cat Power, and Sam Beam of Iron & Wine, whose band wrapped his pensive songs in something like a Grateful Dead lilt.
Rob Grant and I were writing a Radio 4 comedy show called Son of Cliché in which there was a recurring sketch called Dave Hollins: Space Cadet, a parody of Alien, with a lone survivor and a computer, voiced by Chris Barrie.
With their small screens and limited processing power, mobile phones are a throwback to the 1980s, when a lone programmer toiling over a computer could cook up a hit game in a few weeks.
The vision of a computer person as a lone guy sat in a box hacking code (the "Assange" model) is outdated, and was probably never true in the first place.
NICOLE: I think a lot of readers presume that blogging is a solitary engagement, maybe they see a lone writer tapping away at a computer.
The balls, which represent five-megaton nuclear warheads, are aimed at objects labeled as military targets — power plants, missile installations — while a lone child oversees the game from a nearby computer terminal.
In Toledo, the expansive Obama office was buzzing with volunteers, while the McCain office had a lone worker sitting on the same afternoon, staring into a computer.
The supporting acts brought propulsion and raunch: dance-floor concoctions — generated by computers, samplers and turntables — that could be as sparse as a lone bass line or as dense as (sampled) African drum polyrhythms coupled with booming kick drum.
