Children are brought up to be technological wizards and to have the attention spans of mice.
Code-named ThinThread, it had been developed by technological wizards in a kind of Skunk Works on the N.S.A. campus.
Level 9 is a supersecret group of technological wizards drawn from various federal agencies and given a "BAM" mandate -- "by any means" -- to deal with cyberterrorism and such.
[C2.] The Evolution of the Hacker At a conference of self-described computer hackers, Stephen Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple Computer, recalled an era when the word "hackers" referred to technological wizards, not rogue computer users.
IN a business culture that has long fixated ambivalently on the image of computer wizards brewing technological revolution in their garage, the back-story to the pair of digital copyright battles being waged in federal courts on either coast has a familiar ring.
Sony's Imageworks in Culver City, Calif., has introduced a cinematic technology that enables/forces the action sequences to obey the laws of physics; it's just another technological milestone from the brilliant VFX wizards at Imageworks.
Instead, these companies have stars in their eyes about the stereotype of the young maverick hacker wizards who's going to save their technological butts by doing what others cannot -- administering complex systems.
Clark knew he had technological mountains to move, so in February 1996 he recruited Pavan Nigam, a network programming wizard from Clark's first company, Silicon Graphics, to be a cofounder and head technologist.
Mr. Stone, well served by his cinematographer, the digital wizard Anthony Dod Mantle, and the composers Craig Armstrong and Adam Peters, evokes the chilly colorations and spooky undertones of our technological reality.
