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Lanier is a bit surprised by the hoopla his brainchild has generated. He concedes that expectations have flown far ahead of today's primitive technology, but he is convinced that virtual reality will someday live up to its name. He dreams of users creating their own artificial environment as fast as they can describe it. Even if these worlds are sketched roughly on the screen, he claims, the mind will fill in the missing details. "The internal experience of reality is much more a product of your central nervous system than of the actual external world," he says. "That...
...initial hoopla surrounding his surprise candidacy has since died down, and Nelson, who began running TV ads this spring, has sliced Chiles' early 34-point lead in the polls to just 12 points. In April Chiles defused a crisis by dealing openly with a disclosure that he had taken the common antidepressant drug Prozac for four months to combat moods he called the "blacks." But last week Chiles confirmed that he has resumed taking the drug, leading Nelson's running mate for lieutenant governor to suggest publicly that Chiles might be a "suicide" risk as Governor...
...business that relies so heavily on memory chips, the computer industry is surprisingly forgetful. That trait was on display last week in the hoopla over the unveiling of Microsoft Windows 3.0, a $149 program that its maker claims will give IBM-compatible computers the look and feel of a user-friendly Apple Macintosh. What most everyone failed to recall, however, was that Microsoft has been making the same claim about earlier versions of Windows for the past seven years...
...sort it out. Jimmy Carter was driven from office by the hostage tragedy, and Ronald Reagan's futile attempt to swap arms for hostages blighted his presidency. Bush has steadily followed the recommendation of his own 1985 task force not to negotiate with terrorists and to cut out the hoopla, the yellow ribbons and prayer vigils, events that did raise the worth of the hostages...
Before the hoopla subsides, Harvard students and other citizens of the earth should consider the message of Earth Day (April 26) and Earth Week (April 20-27): prosperity at the expense of posterity is no bargain. The crass commercialization of this year's Earth Day events does not detract from the importance of this message...