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...like a card file." Basically, PFS and other listmaking programs are souped-up electronic Rolodexes with built-in cross-reference capabilities. Having stored his trivia on an AppleIIe, Baseball Card Collector Louis Musher, 13, of New York City can call up such arcana as the names of all Montreal Expo catchers who batted .250 or better in 1980. In Sun City, Ariz., Vinton Ostrander, 76, is using his Franklin Ace computer to record the genealogy of some 3,000 relatives and will soon have instant access to 300 years of family history. One New York City editor...
...provokes new pictures, sequences, words and diagrams, his hand begins to jab, rub and slap the screen. Curiosity, once aroused, is satisfied by simply touching a picture of what one wants to understand. This process is re-enacted thousands of times every day at the U.S. Pavilion at Energy Expo '82 (a.k.a. the Knoxville, Tenn., World's Fair) as exuberant children and their more inhibited parents discover that TV viewing is passive no longer. The technology is called the interactive videodisc: the symbiosis of the computer and the laser-vision disc...
...architectural importance of those early ones. Both New York fairs were gaudy happenings that turned architecture into a tool of advertising. The 1964-65 New York fair has left bizarre ghosts of its architectural arrogance, such as the Unisphere and the New York State Pavilion. Montreal's Expo 67, in contrast, leaves a pleasant memory of some fine buildings and a colorful environment inspired by the most beautiful fair in this century-the Swiss National Exposition at Lausanne in 1964. Lausanne, a national fair, was an exemplary work of art, excitingly varied and yet harmonious...
...most memorable exhibit, aside from a display of the People's Republic of China's treasured antiquities, is the Federal Express Pavilion, designed by New York's Leonard Levitan (La Ronde amusement center of Expo 67, U.S. Bicentennial exhibit in the Soviet Union in 1976). It features a laser-beam-light composition in the night sky and a multimedia show about communications that is entertaining and thought provoking...
...finishing touches on structures like the enormous Chinese-Egyptian-Peruvian pavilion before opening day. Most Knoxvillians are steeling themselves for a six-month influx of 11 million tourists. But for all that, the fair, named the Knoxville International Energy Exposition, will be modest by international standards. Montreal's Expo '67, for example, was ten times as costly, and included twice as many foreign participants...