turn of the century
They perfected and licensed to a bigger company a piece of software Lizzie called Speak Memory, which was permitting strangers -- young and old strangers, stupid strangers, strangers with funny accents -- to call a corporate phone number, ask a talking computer for any one of the corporation's hundred or hundred thousand employees by name, and be connected to the employee's extension automatically.
He thinks she may be Dominique Swain -- excellent memory, George! -- who had the title role in the Lolita remake. Or is it Britney Spears?
Dianne hands Ben the two stacks of Friday-afternoon reading. There's his trading stack (companies' fresh quarterly and annual reports, clippings from newsletters about metallurgy and cable TV) and his making stack (conceptual designs from his NASCAR track architect, deal memos for the rights to William Gaddis and Vladimir Nabokov books, the April P & L from BarbieWorld).
- An interview w/ K.A. -- additional info.
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