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...this mind-snapping collection of rare, unreleased or alternate takes of 58 Dylan tunes has racked up sales over 300,000 and has inspired everyone from Paul McCartney to Frank Zappa to scour their vaults. This collection ($45.95 for the 3-CD set) stands apart, though: it is the audio notebooks of rock's greatest songwriter. Songs that Dylan leaves off a record would make history for anyone else. The last three tunes in Vol. 3, including the beautiful Series of Dreams, are the most recent and demonstrate beyond doubt that he's still the guy to beat...
Other, more exotic technologies have produced disappointment as well. Videoconferencing has largely flopped as a substitute for business travel because costly systems -- they range up to $20,000 in price -- have failed to transmit clear, crisp images and audio signals. Users complain that they are prevented from swapping notes and documents and cannot ensure privacy. They grouse about having to leave their offices and miss phone calls to use the special rooms set up for videoconferencing...
While they have purchased audio players and video recorders, people have by and large shunned high-tech products and services like personal computers and electronic shopping. While big corporations were infected with PC mania during the 1980s, households remained largely immune. There are far fewer homes with PCs than analysts predicted, much to the chagrin of manufacturers like IBM and Commodore. Another loser: the picture telephone. First introduced by AT&T at the 1964 New York World's Fair, it allows callers to see as well as hear each other. But consumers considered the device...
...government. In fact, the Reagan Administration closed the Environmental Protection Agency's noise-control office in 1982 and dropped noise-emission labeling on such items as power tools and lawn mowers. Hearing experts call for a return of noise-emission information as well as new warning labels on audio equipment that can produce dangerously high decibel levels...
Other parents sat in folding chairs under an awning outside the church, watching the rain and listening to the service via a closed circuit audio system...