This leads to the question of what new kinds of surprises will become possible, a topic I will cover in my next column.

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And not just in the hard information sciences, either. (We won't attempt to cover biotech in this column.) The quantum era so fetchingly described by Feynman has loosened our thinking in other fields, too.

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But traditionally I go for classic regional food, which I cover weekly in my Great American Bites column for USAToday.com, and Nashville is famous for two things.

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We convinced our good friend Ross Rubin to write a new weekly column for us called Switched On which'll cover everything related to digital convergence, the connected home, and all those other multimedia buzzwords that marketers are tossing out these days.

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Above that, you'll find a column showing the title you're currently reading, along with a small thumbnail of the cover.

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Though by the time of Mr Novak's column she had been based safely in Virginia for several years, the article nonetheless blew her cover.

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Its orange and black line-drawn cover of two pillars supporting a capital was the only dash of color in 52 pages of mostly three-column gray type.

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