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...Vegas with 60 online friends to a wedding of two SeniorNetters in Michigan. ``Lord willing, we'll see all 350 people in our computer family.'' In addition to communicating with one another and sharing memories about everything from the Great War to the once ubiquitous Burma Shave highway ads, seniors are connecting with the generations below them. Children of aging parents log on for advice about health care and retirement communities or just to chat. On SeniorNet, several programs link schoolchildren and seniors. The Generation to Generation forum enables students to tap personal histories of World...
...sure I won't be that far away from cyberspace. I still have to finish tuning up my brand-new Pentium 90 speedster with the 2-gigabyte SCSI drive, 32 megs of screaming RAM, a 17-in., 16.7 million color screen, 4x CD-ROM drive, V.34 superdata highway modem. But before taking it out for a spin...
...first journalist to get beaten up in cyberspace. Every reporter who ventures there soon learns how prickly its inhabitants can be about stories that reinforce the stereotype of the Net as a place where only spies, hackers and child molesters live. Editors are also discovering that the information highway is a two-way street: no matter what they print about gun control, for example, a flood of angry E-mail is almost sure to follow. While few editors will admit to being influenced by such online pressure (unless, of course, it points out an error), most journalists are likely...
...passenger vehicles. The lean-back comfort of a train meets the door-to-door convenience of a car. Automobile travelers would be able to key in their destination, flip open a magazine and leave the actual driving to ALVINN. Last October the DOT committed $160 million to an Automated Highway System research consortium, which includes the C.M.U. team. A European coalition is working on similar technology called Prometheus; Japanese automakers are also tinkering with prototypes...
...divided highway lances through the beauties of a Pennsylvania dawn, morning frost glinting across the hills below. It's hard to enjoy the natural wonders, though, when ALVINN is behind the wheel, doing 88 km/h in the fast lane. First he lurches right, crossing both lanes of the blacktop and alarming bleary-eyed commuters trying to share the road. Then he careens to the left, skidding onto the gravel shoulder and nearly into a ditch. Finally Todd Jochem, 27, a graduate student at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University, wrests the wheel of the four-wheel-drive Humvee from ALVINN while...