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...MUCH BALLYHOOED MAY 27 MEETING WITH IBM CEO LOUIS GERSTNER JR.; A TRUCE WAS EXPECTED IN THEIR FEUD OVER SOFTWARE: It's the most overhyped meeting of all time...
...paper and ink, and now calls itself "the Document Company." Another office-of-the-future hopeful, Wang Laboratories, recently placed a huge bet on expensive paper-scanning and imaging systems to stamp out paper. Customers balked, Wang abandoned the office-equipment business and filed for bankruptcy last year. IBM also tried and failed, as did oil giant Exxon, which ended up selling off its office- automation division in 1984 after investing more than $2 billion in it. Microsoft could be next, warns Richard Shaffer, editor of ComputerLetter. "Here's yet another company pursuing the elusive dream of the paperless office...
Burke has also served on the board of directors of IBM and the Prudential Insurance Company and Harvard's Board of Overseers. He has also been involved with the Medical School and the Dental School...
There has been, predictably, a backlash. The family-oriented Prodigy system closed down its "frank discussion" conference in January when the language got a little too frank for its owners (Sears and IBM). In March federal agents raided bulletin boards in 15 states searching for evidence that they were trafficking in child pornography (which, unlike most pornography, is illegal in the U.S.). Parents' and women's groups complain that sexually explicit material is still available to any youngster who can operate a modem. "The last thing this culture needs," writes Stephanie Salter in the San Francisco Examiner, "is yet another...
...IBM and Blockbuster Entertainment announced a joint venture to develop a new way to deliver CDs; they will be recorded one by one on demand right at the store, eliminating the need for inventory and the possibility of shoplifting...