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...another and sharing memories about everything from the Great War to the once ubiquitous Burma Shave highway ads, seniors are connecting with the generations below them. Children of aging parents log on for advice about health care and retirement communities or just to chat. On SeniorNet, several programs link schoolchildren and seniors. The Generation to Generation forum enables students to tap personal histories of World War I and the Depression, as well as lessons on aging. Says John Horn, professor of gerontology at the University of Southern California: ``It's the equivalent of the old folks sitting around the village...
...BBSes. Brief stops at nearby fantasy- game systems, electronic porn parlors and digital meet-a-date services proved tiresome. A few weeks of arguing with cyberfeminists in alt.soc.women on Usenet taught me that all was not fun and games. Then I found the WELL, acronym for Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link. ``Hello,'' I typed in. ``I'm new around here and don't know what to do next...
Technology's new challenge, ideally at least, is to re-empower voters and revitalize democracy through more direct popular representation. Pitfalls do abound. The same technology able to identify and link citizens and political institutions will also necessarily facilitate nationwide identification systems and increased governmental surveillance. This will undoubtedly prompt a second neo-Orwellian howl to accompany an elitist shudder over entrusting the people -- the booboisie as a 21st century cybermob. But overall, the favorable balance that should result is compelling...
There are technical issues aplenty, such as whether the computer or the television -- or some hybrid -- will be the main electronic link to the home of the 21st century. But the more tantalizing question is just how the information titans will make their money. Spurred by forecasts that the worldwide market for everything from movies on demand to electronic shopping malls could reach $1 trillion within a decade, top corporate strategists are still debating whether they will profit most by distributing digital data, by owning it or by some combination...
Some companies are quietly finding ways to link up all these appliances. Motorola created a new unit in January to build equipment that will bring online networks to home computers via TV cables. Motorola plans to test the system this year in a venture with TCI in suburban Chicago. (Comcast is experimenting with a similar system in Philadelphia, using equipment made by Zenith.) Apple, in conjunction with Texas Instruments, will market a tool it calls FireWire, designed to hook all such devices together so they can be operated from a single ``touchpad,'' or remote-control device...