19 December 2000 By The Morning News — 19 Dec 2000 The year in technology: layoffs, sales, and platforms. [wsj]How AOL plans to unify the media cosmos.Can Apple survive and still be revolutionary?How the brain knows what it knows: the extraction of meaning in steams of information.Rep. Dick Armey moves to investigate Carnivore, despite the Justice Department's stonewalling.How e-commerce sites reconfigured themselves to prepare for the holidays.Ordering books online is worse for the environment than visiting your local bookstore.MP3.com moves into Muzak territory for new revenue.Leon Theremin was a spy and the father of electronica.Iraq is buying PS2s to study for weapons systems.RedHerring lays off 32.MVP.com lays off 79; Gretsky reportedly "in tears."New True is True is subtle as hell.You should read every article in Art & Culture.Designer of the first degree: Susan Kare defined our experience.