Word: cd
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...toward it, digital technology's dizzying capacity to shuffle, combine, alter and duplicate images and words raises ever more daunting questions for the arts. "We can scarcely calculate," critic George Steiner has remarked, "the mutations in our experience of texts, music and art in the new worlds of the CD-ROM, of virtual reality, of cyberspace and the Internet...
...fact, the line between today's film and tomorrow's digital photography is blurring. Some photo developers can already turn your film prints into digital files, a trend that Kodak and Intel hope to nurture with a jointly created Picture CD service slated to begin later this year. Kodak also has a new $349 "film drive" for PCs that converts a roll of APS film into sharp, digitized pictures. Imagek, a unit of Irvine Sensors, is attempting to merge the two worlds inside the camera. Its "electronic film system," which converts any 35-mm model into a digital camera...
...METAPHOR] JOEL KLEIN, Justice Department antitrust chief: "This is like having someone with a monopoly in CD players forcing consumers to take its CDs in order to get the machine...
...wonder so many kids' titles are previewing at this week's Electronic Entertainment Expo in Atlanta. A digital Elmo teaches pre-schoolers their ABC's and 1-2-3's in two of the first "edutainment" titles for the Sony PlayStation. And move over, Quicken: a Beanie Babies CD-ROM helps kids track their cuddly assets and guides them to some online trading sites...
...music--seeks to capture some of the style exemplified by Sinatra and other performers of the Big Band era. The swing scene, a close cousin, tries to focus less on the style and more on the music itself. One swing group, Cherry Poppin' Daddies, currently has a Top 40 CD. Scotty Morris, 30, bandleader for Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, another brisk-selling swing act, says his classmates at the Musicians Institute in Hollywood would play Sinatra records "nonstop." That was 10 years ago. Frank is still his hero. Says Morris: "Musicians have always loved Sinatra and will always love...