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BILL CLINTON's answer to the Bush campaign's emphasis on noneconomic issues has been to show that he, unlike the President, has a plan. His latest strategy involves using Macintosh computers to launch a high-tech assault intended to inform voters of exactly what that plan is. Drop by your local Democratic Party headquarters, and you too can access the Bill Clinton Interactive Kiosk, a multimedia presentation complete with moving pictures in which voters can view the candidate speaking to a rapt audience on 12 topics such as defense, the economy and welfare reform. Voters can even take home...
...opened last year under the direction of Ray DeMoulin, a 38-year Kodak veteran, more than 2,000 designers, illustrators, graphic artists and professional photographers have made the pilgrimage to immerse themselves in the new technology. Among those who have come to play at the center's 90 (mostly Macintosh) workstations are photographer Richard Avedon, graphic designer Milton Glaser and illustrator Jean-Michel Folon. (It was here that photographer Gregory Heisler created the Ted Turner-CNN composite that illustrated TIME's Man of the Year cover...
...television debut on ABC's Good Morning America, Casper the talking (and listening) computer was everything one would expect of a digital servant -- friendly, eager to please but slightly hard of hearing. Morning host Joan Lunden, demonstrating Casper's capabilities on an Apple Macintosh computer, was able to persuade the system to program her VCR simply by talking into a microphone -- although she had to repeat "Casper, accept program!" several times before the machine finally got the message. When the technology is perfected, say Apple executives, computers will be able to act on their human masters' every command, whether...
...addition, four undergraduate houses--Currier, Leverett, Lowell and North are currently participating in a pilot network program. For a monthly fee, residents can access a network system with a Macintosh computer...
...PowerBook packs the features of a Macintosh into a machine the size and weight of a dictionary. But driving the new venture is a bit of magic performed by programmers at Voyager, a Santa Monica, Calif., software company, that makes the experience of reading a book on a screen amazingly close to reading it on paper. "It's the first thing I've seen that I could curl up in bed with," says Nora Rawlinson, editor in chief of the trade magazine Publishers Weekly...