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Cable-wiring the houses would also prepare Harvard for the future of communications technology. Soon, the appliances we consider to be separate technological entities--the television, the VCR, the computer, the telephone, and the fax machine--will condense into one "super-appliance." This tele-compu-video-fax-phone will change technology so that all tele-communications, from logging on to the Internet to talking on the telephone to receiving cable television, will take place through a new type of fiber-optic cable wire now being laid by cable and telephone companies. Laying this cable wire would provide students with cable...
...Palm Pilot" digital planners package everything from Tokyo time to Bobby Fisher's chess strategies in an efficient bundle of computer chips the size of your average remote control. Much like the coveted television accessory, however, the rare compu-planners have become sour status symbols, as misunderstood as the channel changer left for dead in a garbage can when its batteries...
...computer market, while IBM's share has fallen to 33%. Says John Roach, chairman of Tandy, which manufactures a $999 model: "1986 will be the year of the PC-compatible." In the past few weeks the field has grown still more crowded. Two big California retail chains, Businessland and Compu terland, said they would begin marketing IBM-compatibles under their own names...
Desktop Computing, a monthly magazine with about 50,000 readers, has published its final issue. So has Compu-Kids, Educational Computer, Computer-Fun and two dozen other computer magazines. "Anyone wanting to start a new magazine had better research another field," says Robert Lydon, publisher of Personal Computing. "This one is dead...
Inevitably, some telecomputers have discovered ways to use the new medium for the most intimate form of human communication. Subscribers to Compu Serve's "Citizen Band" facility have taken to exchanging fantasy sexual scenarios with strangers. "We're dancing in my living room," begins a typical CompuSex seduction. "And I'm unbuttoning your blouse...