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While they have purchased audio players and video recorders, people have by and large shunned high-tech products and services like personal computers and electronic shopping. While big corporations were infected with PC mania during the 1980s, households remained largely immune. There are far fewer homes with PCs than analysts predicted, much to the chagrin of manufacturers like IBM and Commodore. Another loser: the picture telephone. First introduced by AT&T at the 1964 New York World's Fair, it allows callers to see as well as hear each other. But consumers considered the device...
...wisp. It would certainly be a mistake to repeat the glowing predictions of the past. But it would be equally foolish to pronounce the Information Age a hoax. If the industry is to meet its own projections, however, it must recognize that most people are intimidated by even moderately high-tech products -- think of programming a VCR -- and must refine its products and services accordingly. But all that may be just part of the Information Aging process...
...comfortable, quick-drying innovation is fitted with a variable web of beltings, tethers and buckles that snugly grip the toes and the ankle while keeping the foot from sliding back and forth. A tough rubber sole and a high arch take the off-road punishment expected by hikers and mountain climbers; hot colors and a high-tech look are now attracting buyers who want to wear what the rugged, back-to-nature types swear by. "They're all I wear when it's warm," says Dale Covington, who works at the Trailhead, a Missoula, Mont., outfitter, and owns two pairs...
...surprise about-face last week, high-tech salvagers who found the planes announced they were not the Lost Squadron after all. They appeared to be five separate aircraft that had crashed within 1 1/2 miles of each other on individual training missions. Still, Graham Hawkes, who headed the search, resisted the legend of the Triangle. "I don't know where Flight 19 is," he said. "But it's certainly in the ocean and not up with the aliens anywhere...
...Lifecall, one of many personal emergency-response systems that summon medical help at the press of a button. Now that as many as 350,000 of the systems have been sold, they are beginning to draw fire from consumer-advocacy groups that question the marketing of the high-tech hailers and sometimes even the need for them...