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...Recently, the students have been tuning in to reports from China instead. George Orwell prophesied that advances in information technology would lead to Big Brother's total control. It is more likely that, as Reagan said, the "Goliath of totalitarianism will be brought down by the David of the microchip...
...planetary circuits are wired: an integrated system, a microchip floating in space. Wired for evils -- for AIDS, for example, for nuclear war, for terrorism. But also for entertainment, knowledge and even (we live in hope) for higher possibilities like art, excellence, intelligence and freedom. Justice has not gone planetary and never will. But the village has indeed become global -- Marshall McLuhan was right. No island is an island anymore: the earth itself is decisively the island...
...race to dominate the predicted $40 billion market for high-definition television, the next- generation technology that will provide TV pictures as clear as a movie screen's. Last week Zenith Electronics, the only remaining major American manufacturer of TV sets, and AT&T, a power in microchip research, said they would pool their research to develop an HDTV system by 1993. Zenith will provide the broadcasting technology, and AT&T will provide the microelectronics...
Nowhere is this process more sharply defined than in the $32.5 billion global semiconductor industry. Since 1980, more than 200 new U.S. semiconductor companies have been formed as the development of microchip technology has surged forward. Yet the U.S. share of world semiconductor production has slipped from 57.2% to 39.4% during this period, while Japanese companies have expanded their market share from...
When the first wave of Africanized killer bees reaches the Texas border as early as next year, some of the restless insects may be turned into informants for the scientists who are plotting against them. The aerospace company Martin Marietta has designed a solar-powered microchip transmitter that can be glued snugly onto a bee's back, enabling entomologists to follow the swarm's movements and observe the bees' mating and foraging habits. The transmitter emits an infrared signal that can be detected up to a mile away. The company is still testing the tiny bee tracer, which it hopes...