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...hundred twenty-five years ago, Encyclopaedia Britannica published its first edition. Shortly afterwards, Joseph Connors opened a display at the Coop...
...uses less than 1% of its theoretical capacity, or bandwidth, as it's called in the trade. Even so, it can carry 250,000 times as much data as a standard copper telephone wire - or, to put it another way, it can transmit the contents of the entire Encyclopedia Britannica every second...
...Medicine and Methodist Hospital who had developed a procedure for rapidly spotting the cystic fibrosis defect in a single strand of DNA, using the gene- cloning technique called polymerase chain reaction. "It's like finding one typographical error in a book 180 times the size of the Encyclopaedia Britannica in about six hours," says Dr. Mark Hughes, director of Baylor's Prenatal Genetics Center...
Meanwhile, a surprising number of companies are developing programs to run on the current machines. Among them are reference-book publishers like Britannica and Grolier, magazine publishers like Time Warner and National Geographic, film companies like Lucasfilm and Disney, electronics manufacturers like Sony, Fujitsu and NEC, as well as a long list of software publishers...
Encyclopedias, according to the encyclopedia, are books containing basic knowledge in all areas of life. Many publications have answered that description in their time, from the medieval compendiums to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, first published in 1768, to three contemporary one-volume works. Which one of that trio is best? It depends on the size of the reader's requirements, bank account and bookshelf...