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Technology races ahead -- laser surgery, CD-ROM encyclopedias, fat-free cheese. It is, in short, an extraordinary time to be alive...
...first there was home shopping, then video-on-demand, and then long- distance video games. Pretty soon we had video party lines, video bulletin boards, virtual house calls, electronic classifieds, real-time Yellow Pages, laser-print coupon clubs, interactive soap operas and all the rest. The only people who weren't plugged in were those pointy heads who never owned a TV set in the first place. I saw one of them the other day, walking outside, making a fuss over the flowers. Hey, I'm no lowbrow. I used to go to the movies...
...family constantly called upon to battle with balky computers and weird electronics. I hook up the VCRs and manipulate the laser disc player, and I have yet to come home without Mom asking me to take a look at some mechanical thing in the house...
Forming the backbone of the HSDN are tens ofthousands of feet of fiber optic cables,ultra-thin glass wires which transmit digital datain the form of laser-generated light. "Fiber isthe only vehicle that will support us for the longhaul," says Holmes...
...easy to see why, after all these years, Aerosmith is more popular than ever before. They have no need to rely on the superficial props of laser shows, revolving stages or video projectors to put on a show. Their music alone, raw and unleashed, more than suffices. Aerosmith remembers what most of today's rock and roll performers seem not yet to have discovered--that rock and roll comes before the performance, and should, in fact, inspire the performance. In a decade where one would be hard put to differentiate between all the Top 40 hits, Aerosmith is a reminder...