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Voicing complaints about the state of movie-making is always frustrating. Defenders of the status quo will inevitably claim that the American people want to see high-tech action flicks with hackneyed plots. The truth, however, is that we are tricked into seeing blockbuster films by carefully crafted media blitzes and the draw potential of Hollywood heartthrobs. We all can remember when we went to see a film such as Armageddon even though our friends told us it was awful. Like insects that fly into the light after watching their comrades burst into flames, we convince ourselves that a movie...
...questioning of his star witness was already going poorly when independent counsel Donald Smaltz dumped a glass of water on the computer equipment. As Smaltz tried to make light of the situation, the liquid seeped into the circuitry, shorting out the only high-tech courtroom in Washington's federal courthouse and forcing a recess in the trial of former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy...
During the second week of October, a curious thing happened in the software world: Windows 98 was not the top-selling CD-ROM in the nation. What was? Deerhunter II, a $20 sequel that pits high-tech computer gamers against low-tech deer. While this upset may have ruined breakfast for a few Microsofties, it came as no surprise to anyone who's been watching the computer-gaming world during the past year. Software programs that simulate hunting have dominated the charts ever since GT Interactive created the original Deer Hunter this past January; four hunt-and-shoot titles were...
...proved that even an uber-nerd whom the rest of us beat up in the playground could make it big in the land of opportunity. But the world's richest man made the classic hubristic mistake: building what one newspaper called the "new Xanadu" and bragging about it. Gates' high-tech haven would top even Hearst's epically garish San Simeon as the most grandiose castle in America. But as Hearst once quipped of his estate--which housed, among other things, a large zoo--"Pleasure is what you can afford to pay for it." And Gates is richer than Hearst...
...course; someone has to marry the beautiful people in marketing. But many of the Redmond kids will be frighteningly smart mutants. There's no telling how far this evolutionary shortcut can go. Each generation of geniuses will be smarter and start working younger. It's possible that the high-tech companies of the future could be managed entirely via inter-fetus telepathy. Some entrepreneurs will cash out their stock options and retire before they are born...