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Time prides itself on providing some of the best Internet coverage in the business--but then, we have an unfair advantage. His name is Philip Elmer-DeWitt, our senior editor for technology, and he was surfing the Net before most of us even knew it existed. Elmer-DeWitt's years of experience navigating through cyberspace have not only put him ahead of the curve on virtually every Internet-related issue but have also made him unusually adept at cutting through the considerable hype and confusion that surround this baffling new medium--a skill that's especially evident in this week...
Writing about computers was not what Elmer-DeWitt had in mind when he arrived at Time in 1979. For one thing, the magazine was not covering the field at the time. For another, he first signed on as a temporary secretary. "Like many people," he recalls, "I decided to be a journalist in the aftermath of the Watergate hearings. I was trying to make it as a freelance writer and was basically starving. I needed a paycheck...
...controversial ruling broadly condemned Microsoft's tactics as "monopolistic" and drew Justice Department fire as "an invitation to anarchy in the enforcement of antitrust law." Now, Microsoft is back where it was a year ago: "They dodged the bullet," saysTIME's Philip Elmer-DeWitt.In an interview with TIME last month, Elmer-DeWitt notes, an unworried Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said that only one serious lawsuit had ever surfaced in his firm's history: Apple Computer's unsuccessful claim that the Microsoft Windows operating system had too closely copied from the MacIntosh. Microsoft still faces afederal probe into its proposed on-line...
...knowingly transmitting "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy or indecent" pictures or comments overelectronic networks that are accessible to anyone under 18. (Another proposal to send cable operators to jail for carrying explicit material failed at the last minute.) "This is a very cynical vote," saysTIME senior technology editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt. "It's unconstitutional, and the first time anybody challenges it, it's going to be thrown out."Jump toNetPolitics
...years forknowingly transmitting"obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy or indecent" pictures or comments over electronic networks accessible to anyone under 18. (Another proposal to send cable operators to jail for carrying explicit material failed at the last minute.) "This is a very cynical vote," saysTIME senior technology editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt. "It's unconstitutional, and the first time anybody challenges it, it's going to be thrown out." The handful of opponents Wednesday found a rare conservative ally in Republican Orrin Hatch of Utah, who criticized the cheap political theatrics at play: "It's kind of a game...