Word: multimedia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Japanese call it ``maruchimedia'' -- multimedia -- and they plan to connect it to nearly every Japanese home by the year 2010. Their carrier: a nationwide supersophisticated fiber-optic system being encouraged by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. In Hong Kong 600 of the city's skyscrapers are already wired with fiber optics and rate as ``intelligent buildings.'' The colony's 6 million residents are so interconnected that the better restaurants forbid patrons to talk on their cellular telephones while eating...
...like the beetle, minitel is in danger of becoming outmoded. With monthly Minitel fees rising just as PC prices are starting to plummet, some users are turning to multimedia vehicles that can connect them with the Internet, or to more varied commercial services. France Telecom is struggling mightily to keep its Minitel lead, partly by forming strategic alliances with foreign communications groups (including AT&T, Sony, Motorola and Apple), but the French effort, like others in Europe, is burdened by the weight of the European Union's burgeoning bureaucracy, which is increasingly inserting barriers across the Continent's communications throughways...
...They want to be in the multimedia business,'' says Roger Mathus, executive director of the U.S. Semiconductor Industry Association in Japan. ``But they don't know how to do it. They thrive on having a model they can improve upon, but they don't have...
Instead the Japanese bureaucracy is marshaling its forces for a ``multimedia war'' -- with all the implications of official encouragement that the phrase suggests. The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications' (M.P.T.) gargantuan plan to run fiber-optic cable into almost every home by 2010 will cost between $330 billion and $500 billion. Critics warn that it is not only an expensive but probably also an unnecessary weapon, since there are no services -- current or expected soon -- that would actually employ fiber to the home. A hybrid system of coaxial cable and fiber-optic cable does the job just as well...
...asking many outside experts about the impact of information technology on society, we found ourselves turning inward to tap the many experienced sources within our own company -- indeed within our own magazine. Not only is Time Warner Inc., TIME's parent company, involved in a wide range of multimedia projects -- such as the creation of a pioneering interactive television system in Orlando, Florida, and the establishment of its own site on the Internet -- but TIME magazine has introduced its own brand of journalism into these new media forms...