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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Televised courses can be a bargain for financially strapped schools. A district may pay as much as $8,000 for a satellite dish, cordless phones and the electronic keypads or computer terminals needed for students to communicate with their long-distance teachers. That one-time outlay amounts to far less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Beam Me Up, Students Satellite | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

Some public school administrators are concerned, however, that the new technology will erode their control. Principals have little leverage over teachers who live hundreds of miles away and do not teach exclusively in one district. Adolescent daydreaming carries less of a penalty when students know they can view a lesson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Beam Me Up, Students Satellite | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

Stephen Yelity, 39, was an accounting manager for Johnson & Johnson, when he decided to start his own computer software firm six years ago. Accurate Information Systems (1988 sales: $10.5 million), based in South Plainfield, N.J., is now the 65th largest black-owned firm in the U.S., according to Black Enterprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINORITY ENTERPRISE: Doing It for Themselves | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

One day last month Linda Hiwot, a Brooklyn junior high school teacher, got a surprise when she phoned her bank for a credit-card balance. Instead of the familiar human teller, she was answered by a computer-generated voice that told all callers with Touch-Tone phones to "press 1...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Hello! This is Voice Mail Speaking | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

The technological forerunner of the modern voice-messaging system was the common telephone-answering machine. But now, instead of talking to a simple tape recorder, people are conversing with a computer at the end of the line. At the heart of the new systems are special-purpose computer chips and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Hello! This is Voice Mail Speaking | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

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