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...Soviet Union can launch the first satellite, the first astronaut in space and the Second World War-winning T-34 tank, but it is behind -- perhaps as much as a decade -- in high-tech avionics, guidance systems and the whole range of electronics. But the Soviet designer is not stupidly proud. If someone has a better idea than he does, he accepts it. And that is what GRU activities in the West are all about...
...that is in the hazy distance. In the meantime, the high-tech intrusion may change the city in unwelcome ways. "Quality of life" is a virtual mantra in Colorado Springs, and some see that aspect threatened. Ironically, some of the retired officers, who discovered the city's quiet beauty while stationed there, can be found grumbling about air pollution and traffic congestion. Others have noted congressional hesitancy in funding the militarization of space and wonder whether CSOC and the U.S. Space Command are just pie in the sky. Notes Mayor Robert Isaac: "It's hard to see into a crystal...
...novel Fahrenheit 451, Author Ray Bradbury foresaw the day when books would be replaced by various forms of high-tech entertainment, including soap operas in which the viewer could participate. Books are still very much with us, but in a twist of fate that even the prophetic Bradbury did not anticipate, a new computer game named for his book allows players to take part in--and influence the outcome of--a drama set in the police-state world of Fahrenheit...
...other, more distant institutions via satellite. Through these links, speeches and seminars at any of these institutions can be viewed by faculty and students in all the others. Elsewhere, universities have launched even more ambitious ventures. Stanford offers engineering courses by closed-circuit TV so that employees in high-tech companies throughout Silicon Valley can attend class without leaving their place of work. The University of Washington gives televised courses to supplement the education of medical students in places as distant as Alaska, Idaho and Montana...
When Dan Campbell, 35, who operates out of Cypress, Calif., and Wife Robin, 30, haul high-technology gear across the country for Bekins Van Lines, they haul a little high-tech luxury for themselves in their $35,000, 120-in.-long cabin. While on the road, Robin prepares broiled chicken and fresh steamed vegetables in the kitchenette complete with a microwave oven. The thick pile carpet and acoustically padded walls are easily cleaned with the central vacuum- cleaning system. After dinner she may watch a prerecorded episode of Dallas on their VCR and remotecontrolled color TV. When...