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Collective action on a global scale will be easier to achieve in a world already knit together by cables and airwaves. The fax machine had much to do ! with the downfall of tyrants in Eastern Europe. Two years ago, I was assigned an interpreter in Estonia who spoke with a slight Southern accent because she had learned her English watching Dallas, courtesy of TV signals beamed over the border from neighboring Finland. The Cosby Show, aired on South African television, has no doubt helped erode apartheid...
George Bush and Ed Rollins have never enjoyed an easy relationship. As Vice President, Bush despised the Republican political consultant's habit of dumping on g.o.p. candidates who performed poorly in public. Two years ago, Bush tried to have Rollins fired after he urged Republican congressional candidates by fax to "oppose the President" and his support for a 1990 tax increase. Four months ago, when Bush needed to shore up his political position, he hired Rollins' wife rather than the veteran White House operative. Relations began to warm three weeks ago when, according to a senior Administration official, Rollins sent...
...organizes one of his famous electronic town meetings. That night, before a television audience Murphy Brown would die for, he lays out the nation's precarious economic situation and the stark choices the U.S. confronts. Even before his presentation is over, the returns begin to pour in -- by telephone, fax, computer modem, videophone and two-way interactive cable TV. By morning, the will of the American people is clear: they have decided to cut back on Social Security payments, further slash military spending and raise their own taxes...
First it was the home. Phones, fax machines and PCs made it impossible to leave work at the office. Then the cellular phone made the car, even the golf course, fair game. In 1984 Airfone Inc., a GTE subsidiary, began installing telephones on airplanes. But their old-fashioned analog circuitry, vulnerable to interference, made many calls sound as if they came from Mars. Moreover, plane phones were usually scarce, located either fore or aft or shared, one to a three-seat complex, leaving travelers a reasonable excuse for staying blissfully out of pocket...
...Phone, fax, conference, order -- all from your seat aloft...