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...painted the bombing of Guernica, developed cinema and television, built highways and wired the world. Not to mention the peripherals these produced, such as sitcoms and cable channels, "800" numbers and Websites, shopping malls and leisure time, existentialism and modernism, Oprah and Imus. Initials spread like graffiti: NATO, IBM, ABM, UN, WPA, NBA, NFL, CIA, CNN, PLO, IPO, IRA, IMF, TGIF. And against all odds, we avoided blowing ourselves...
...antitrust matters [TECHNOLOGY, March 16], Bill Gates said, "At the end of the day, there's only one question: Are we allowed to innovate?" But that is not the issue. It is whether he will sell a product that allows others to innovate and compete in the marketplace. If IBM had used tactics similar to those of Gates' Microsoft in negotiating the design of DOS with Gates & Co., the history of the personal-computer industry would have been significantly different. Gates needs to be reminded of this. ROGER J. PATTERSON Muscat, Oman...
...process is simple on both Macintoshes and IBM-compatible computers. On the Macintosh side, you need to use a program called Fetch. Open it, (it is usually located with Internet software) and connect to fas.harvard.edu, providing it with your username and password (just like telnet...
...Garry Kasparov, quite possibly the best chess player who ever lived, sat down across a chessboard from a machine, an IBM computer called Deep Blue, and lost...
...government's spending billions to build the "information superhighway." Then that highway sprang up overnight. Although the roots of the Internet are in the Defense Department, the Web's sudden arrival as a society-transforming force is largely the result of capitalism in almost textbook-pure form: not IBM or even Microsoft, but vast crowds of garage-shop inventors and hungry entrepreneurs...