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...next step is interactivity. Wireless Access, a Silicon Valley start-up, has invented an innovative product called SkyWriter that includes an onscreen keyboard and a thumb-guided cursor for pecking out and transmitting messages. It works: five minutes after a Time reporter first picked one up, he managed to create and send E-mail--while navigating rush-hour traffic. How good is the technology? Three weeks ago, Microsoft shelled out an estimated $25 million to increase its small stake in Skytel, a pager company that will sell the SkyWriter this fall. Bill Gates, it seems, believes in ghosts...
...computer will soon be able to channel- and Net-surf on the same screen. This week Gateway 2000, the PC direct marketer, will introduce the long-promised big-screen PC. The $4,000 Destination consists of a PC with a 31-in. monitor, a wireless keyboard and access to television signals and the Internet. Mix in a high-speed modem and a friendly interface that helps byte phobiacs navigate the Net, and you'd have interactive television. Not a reality yet, but no longer a mere fantasy. (1-800-846-2000) --By Robertson Barrett, Daniel Eisenberg and Michael Krantz
...cerebral. The instrumental work of Kirkland, who performs on all the new tracks, and Marsalis, who plays on two, adds shading and sophistication. These are songs that hit a little harder than the typical Top 40 tune: the clever I Hung My Head, with its commanding horns and elevating keyboard work, tells the story of an accidental shooting, and could also be read as a plea for gun control; I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying is a countryish tune that clomps along with a steady beat but is also a well-observed look at a divorced...
...standard gauge. That was invented by the great British computer scientist Alan Turing in a 1950 essay in the journal Mind. Turing set out to address the question "Can machines think?" and proposed what is now called the Turing test. Suppose an interrogator is communicating by keyboard with a series of entities that are concealed from view. Some entities are people, some are computers, and the interrogator has to guess which is which. To the extent that a computer fools interrogators, it can be said to think...
...brokers, like Auto-By-Tel http://www.autobytel.com/ or AutoVantage (1-800-843-7777), on America Online and CompuServe, that bring consumers together with the cars of their choice. This combination of information and immediate access to models can turn shoppers into owners with just a few taps of the keyboard and a couple of telephone calls...