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...avoid that sorry fate? You'll want to weigh two crucial questions. One: Is the gadget digital? In short order, virtually all data will be rendered in computer language to move fluently through the Net's electronic sprawl. Analog phones and plain-film cameras will be about as worthwhile tomorrow as Betamax movies are in our VHS world today. To be sure, you'll still pay extra to go digital: ordinary Canon cameras, with their quaint loadable film, run from $200 bargains on up the price scale, while the digital Canon Sureshot costs $699 at New York City's 47th...
...televised group discussion, you have to pay rapt attention lest the moderator call on you. I was rapt, all right, but I also found myself observing the plain good-heartedness at the table. I wondered with pleasure: Are we getting there, though we don't yet know it? Here were 10 people of all colors gathered around the well-being of America. The country mattered to us. We mattered to us. Nothing else was won, but for now I'll take...
...billionaire S.I. Newhouse, a good many of its pages were also subdued to the point of immobile. It was an atmosphere that Shawn's successor, Robert Gottlieb, did not do much to relieve. When Newhouse moved Tina Brown into the editor's job in 1992, it was for the plain purpose of making noise in the sanctuary...
...recent flood of video e-mail products is partly due to the proliferation of faster PCs and modems. Mostly, though, it's a bid to find the successor to plain old e-mail, which remains the Net's most popular activity. Among online users surveyed by Forrester Research, 83% said they typically use e-mail; only...
Given the story's medical ground rules, tragic, unrequited love is the only love Blatchley can reasonably hope for, and he makes the most of it, courting the plain but gentle Nuala solely from his neck up, in thoughts and dreams and the occasional rounding of his lips. Drifting among blackouts, hallucinations and long days of morphine-muted delirium, he stitches together a history for Nuala as an archetypal carefree country girl, all windblown red hair and stylized pink cheeks. But since Blatchley is also an intellectual (his police beat was forged and stolen art), he isn't satisfied with...