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...have been measured. A quarter-century later, having been catapulted back onto the front pages through their association with Newt Gingrich's "cyberbrain trust," the Tofflers are about to be repackaged for the digital era by Creative Artists Agency, the Hollywood agenting Goliath. The vehicle for this effort: a multimedia clearinghouse called FutureNet, which is building everything from a site on the World Wide Web to a weekend televised magazine and an ambitious half-hour weeknight TV show called Next News Now. NNN will report not what happened today or yesterday but what will happen tomorrow. "There's a History...
...Britain Trainspotting has been an improbable multimedia smash. Irvine Welsh's novel, published in 1993, is the Brit-lit phenomenon of the decade. Told in what Welsh calls "a mixture of phonetics and street language" and sold in music stores to the postliterate generation, it spawned T shirts, posters and a stage adaptation that has been produced in Edinburgh, London and San Francisco. The film, with its attendant top-of-the-pops CD and published screenplay, quickly became Britain's second-biggest-ever homemade box-office winner (after Four Weddings and a Funeral, to which it acts as a bitter...
...Surround Sound: Sony's stereo engineers built a computer with terrific audio quality--a key advantage for multimedia-enthralled PC buyers...
...like everything else, it seems--is also going multimedia. A much lauded site opened on the Internet and on America Online last year; a record label was launched last April featuring such blues artists as Lightnin' Hopkins and such gospel acts as Clarence Fountain & the Blind Boys of Alabama and Cissy Houston (Whitney's mom). This summer two HOB-produced concert tours will visit 30 cities each: one, a neosoul lineup headlined by the Haitian-American hip-hop band the Fugees, starts July 22; and another featuring blues acts will hit the road July...
...Internet also has highly relevant capabilities as a medium for course materials, he said, citing Harvard Business School case studies which will soon be available online in a multimedia format...