Today, the Cape York project is a gleam in the eye of a private Australian developer.

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He also wrote about software agents that go out into the network and come back with any information you want. (Sound a little like a search engine?) Bear and Benford also created fictional global networks long before the World Wide Web was a gleam in the eye of its creator Tim Berners Lee.

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There was no sign of habitation, apart from a dim gleam in the glass fanlight above the front door.

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Although the process of transferring a musical composition from a gleam in the composer's eye into a handwritten manuscript and, finally, a performance-ready score has come a long way from the days of copper-plate engraving, it's a process rife with the possibility of transmittal error.

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But all this will remain no more than a gleam in an architect's laptop if the government pulls out of the sale.

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The two carriers recently rolled out brightly hued versions of some popular handsets, including a red LG Shine, a pink BlackBerry Pearl and a purple Samsung Gleam.

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