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...reportage by a team of veteran Nova and BBC hands, it is less a chronicle of hardware than a loving exploration of the sometimes rocky relationship between the first mindlike machines and the people who created them. Heady data for a generation that tends to take its Macs and PCs for granted. P.E-D...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television Machines That Think | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

...obsessive subject of our increasingly sterile confrontation between the two PCs -- the politically and the patriotically correct -- is something clumsily called multiculturalism. America is a place filled with diversity, unsettled histories, images impinging on one another and spawning unexpected shapes. Its polyphony of voices, its constant eddying of claims to identity, is one of the things that make America America. The gigantic, riven, hybridizing, multiracial republic each year receives a major share of the world's emigration, legal or illegal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fraying Of America | 2/3/1992 | See Source »

CAPTION: MARRYING TVs, CDs AND PCs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World on a Screen | 10/21/1991 | See Source »

...addition, the network permits students to hook their computers to Internet, a computer connection that links Macs and PCs to electronic texts, databases and mainframes across the country and around the world...

Author: By Susie B. Hwang, | Title: Network to Link Student PCs | 10/4/1991 | See Source »

While they have purchased audio players and video recorders, people have by and large shunned high-tech products and services like personal computers and electronic shopping. While big corporations were infected with PC mania during the 1980s, households remained largely immune. There are far fewer homes with PCs than analysts predicted, much to the chagrin of manufacturers like IBM and Commodore. Another loser: the picture telephone. First introduced by AT&T at the 1964 New York World's Fair, it allows callers to see as well as hear each other. But consumers considered the device...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: What New Age? | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

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