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...pointed out that the old analog camcorder some friends lent us last year--roughly the size and weight of a parking meter--isn't exactly state of the art. Video cameras began to shrink more than a decade ago with the introduction of 8-mm tape in cigarette pack-size cassettes that were far smaller than the bulky VHS tapes that fit in our borrowed recorder. Quality improved in 1989 with the introduction of Hi8 film, and it caught on with some 10 million consumers, making 8 mm and Hi8 the most popular format. (The closest competition...
Vannevar Bush is an unlikely cyberculture hero. After all, he was F.D.R.'s World War II science czar, organized the Manhattan Project and helped create the postwar military-industrial-university complex. But the onetime professor at M.I.T.--where he built a massive, gear-driven analog computer called the differential analyzer--was also a prophet. In 1945, dismayed by the wartime info overload, he proposed a desktop machine, the "memex," that would display text and pictures (from a microfilm library) at the press of a button. Presciently, Bush envisioned users of his proto-PC following trails of knowledge along storable hypertext...
DIGITAL SIGNALS Alec Reeves develops pulse-code modulation system in 1939 for converting analog information into digital style on-and-off signals...
...Japan conducts world's first large scale analog-TV broadcast from the Seoul Olympics...
...Move over, StarTAC. When Nokia's shiny 8800 wireless phone goes on sale this June, it could become the new must-have cell phone. The $500 device with a chrome finish weighs just 4 oz. and sports a sliding keypad cover that doubles as a mouthpiece. The 8800 supports analog, digital and PCS phone networks, so it will work anywhere in the U.S. Then again, you could buy five 6-oz. Nokia 6120s or Ericsson KH-668s for the same total price...