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...storage devices for machines built by Sega, Philips, Commodore and all the major computer manufacturers. But unlike most of his competitors, Hawkins sees CDs as a temporary solution. Ultimately, he says, interactive motion pictures will be delivered to home game machines not on a disc but through the fiber-optic networks being built by cable and telephone companies. This summer he announced plans to sell a new version of the Multiplayer that plugs directly into a coaxial cable, where it can serve both as a cable TV and VCR controller and as a gateway to the information highway...
...tools with almost unimaginable power: high-speed computer-graphics chips that can create millions of bright colors and flash them on a screen in a fraction of a second; digital compression schemes that can squeeze the equivalent of a complete set of an encyclopedia onto a single silver disc; fiber-optic cable that can beam limitless quantities of data around the world at nearly the speed of light; simulation techniques that can immerse players in a three- dimensional world of illusion...
...meal issue. Frankly, cereal is low-fat, involves no dead or mistreated animals (I think, since I'm not quite sure what's in those magic marshmallows), tastes reasonably good (or at least really, really sweet) and allows one to relive precious childhood memories. And you get that fiber the college student on the go needs to have in her diet...
Modern enough to settle for a Belgium on sand? Let us hope. Because only in this case, only if the vision of Israelis and Palestinians building fiber- optic cables together is no fantasy, does this peace have a chance...
...point of similarity with feminist art is that it is grounded in trauma. When Horn was a sculpture student in Hamburg in the late '60s, she worked with fiber glass and, unaware that the stuff is poisonous, neglected to use a mask. She ended up confined to a sanatorium for a year, isolated, with severely damaged lungs. When eventually she got back to work, Horn found herself thinking in terms of images of confinement -- cocoons, swaddling, bondage, prostheses. "When you are very isolated or alone," she remarks to the show's curator, Germano Celant, in a catalog interview, "you have...