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Papert spoke about his latest book, The Connected Family: Bridging the Digital Generation Gap, in which he discusses how the rapid growth of information available on the World Wide Web has affected traditional learning methods.
How's this for a switch? Digital Equipment Corp. is replacing computers with humans. Digital has hired 90 people to do something computers do badly: answer the damned phone. The company unplugged its automated system in Littleton, Massachusetts, where potential customers inquire about products and services. DEC is not going...
LOST CAUSE 3. Tamagotchi[TM] $16 Still craving companionship? The Japanese are flocking to buy Tamagotchi, a digital gadget that doubles as a pet chick. Available soon in the U.S., Tamagotchi (Japanese for cute little egg) hatches onscreen. Owners feed, amuse and clean up after their feathered friend by pressing...
I found Mikki Halpin, Stim's erstwhile editor, sitting among a double row of mauve, mostly vacant cubicles. Stim (named after William Gibson's imaginary "digital drug") was typical of the flood of 'zines that launched last year. It was silly and fun and new, and it took the kinds...
It's the gradual, wistful loss of his Utopian enthusiasms, though, that shapes Seabrook's narrative. Inspired by the promise of a "virtual community" to join the Well, a legendary West Coast bulletin-board system, Seabrook learns in various hard ways that a community of digital beings can be just...