Word: modem
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...television while the actual committee is sitting here." He's also letting C-SPAN's cameras, the electorate's virtual eyeballs, peer into more congressional hearings. And under a new program called "Thomas," after Thomas Jefferson, all House documents are being put on the Internet for mass perusal by modem. Thomas, says Gingrich, will shift power "toward the citizens out of the Beltway." It will get "legislative materials beyond the cynicism of the elite." And as this online material sparks online debate, Americans can "begin to have electronic town-hall meetings...
...recent phone call. Paul Haas in Ypsilanti, Michigan, has hooked a computer to his refrigerator and hot tub to report their respective temperatures. In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Michael Witbrock uses a voice synthesizer to let online visitors "talk" to the cat that likes to sleep in the warmth of his modem...
...online services grow? Given the state of technology today, there are limits. For one, only homes with computers and modems can plug in. And since sending photos and movies over phone lines is still relatively time consuming, the market is pretty much restricted to users who like to read and write. Yet the online services are not standing still. CompuServe has begun supplementing its offerings with CD-ROMS, combining the interactivity of a live, online connection with all the sound and animation that can be squeezed onto a CD. Prodigy plans to deliver its service to 200,000 cable...
...rapid growth of electronic networks only compounds the problem, for it allows anyone with a computer and a modem to distribute software silently and instantaneously. More than 90 countries around the world are already connected to the Internet, a global network that reaches an estimated 25 million computer users...
...Using a modem, students and others will be able to dial 496-8500 and type "c courses" at the access prompt. At the login prompt, modem users should type "courses...