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...When we started doing sign-ups, it got a little hairy," says Donna Hubbard, the branch librarian. Arguments sometimes broke out. It's obvious why, she says. Half the patrons are children dying for a chance on the machines. "Most of them don't have PCs," says Hubbard. Many of the local schools don't either...
...Moving Pictures: Each machine has a special card that replaces the clunky quarter-screen video of most clone PCs with a full-screen picture...
Last week's ruling puts responsibility for determining what children may see on the Internet squarely in the hands of parents and teachers. Several software products, including SurfWatch, Cyber Patrol and Net Nanny, allow adults to screen content on their home PCs, while most of the large online providers offer built-in "parental controls" or free screening software. But computer programs don't obviate the need for adult supervision. Even SurfWatch, which pays graduate students to troll the Internet in search of offensive material, promises only 90% effectiveness. And to achieve that, its software filters must, of necessity...
...industry means leaping ahead one cognitive generation and landing in the right place. Few entrepreneurs turn this trick even once; at 52, Clark has done it twice. In the early '80s, as the industry's initial generation of mainframes (see IBM) gave way to a second generation of desktop PCs (see Apple, Microsoft), Clark saw a way to put that data-crunching power to work visualizing information ranging from aircraft fluid dynamics to rampaging velociraptors, then founded the company that made it happen. Fourteen years, 7,200 employees and $2.2 billion in annual revenues later, Silicon Graphics rules...
...head of Microsoft's Interactive Media Division, Stonesifer, 40, is defining what may be the most important step in Microsoft's future: venturing beyond software for PCs into content for all media, including cd-roms, cable TV and the Internet. "We want to be the premier provider of interactive products," she says. With a $500 million 1996 budget, Stonesifer is in a position to change how millions of Americans get their news and entertainment. She has become, for Microsoft's growing ranks of media partners (a collection that ranges from nbc to Julia Child), an indispensable new-media problem solver...