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...rationale for pulling the plug, the signatories of the memo postulated, was nothing less than "to protect the integrity of the Championship Season." Such logic had last been employed during the Vietnam War. In order to save the village that is baseball, the owners as much as said, they had to get out the napalm. Donald Fehr, head of the Players Association, expressed no surprise. Referring, perhaps unwittingly, to the intractability of both sides in the week before the cancellation, Fehr said, "There might as well have been wooden dolls at the bargaining table...
...online services grow? Given the state of technology today, there are limits. For one, only homes with computers and modems can plug in. And since sending photos and movies over phone lines is still relatively time consuming, the market is pretty much restricted to users who like to read and write. Yet the online services are not standing still. CompuServe has begun supplementing its offerings with CD-ROMS, combining the interactivity of a live, online connection with all the sound and animation that can be squeezed onto a CD. Prodigy plans to deliver its service to 200,000 cable...
Earlier this year Whittle pulled the plug on two other once promising ventures: Special Report Network, a series of videos and magazines that was aimed at patients waiting in doctors' offices, and a publishing division that produced advertiser-sponsored books. To raise cash, the company is negotiating the sale to Wall Street's Goldman, Sachs of half the equity in its profit- making Channel One, the advertiser-backed TV news program currently being shown in 12,000 U.S. public schools. Also for sale is Whittle's 50% interest in the $55 million, Ivy Leagueish corporate headquarters in Knoxville, Tennessee, which...
Unfortunately, American society seems to have evolved into a one-size-fits- all system. Schools can resemble factories: put the kids on the assembly line, plug in the right components and send 'em out the door. Everyone is supposed to go to college; there is virtually no other route to success. In other times and in other places, there have been alternatives: apprenticeships, settling a new land, starting a business out of the garage, going to sea. In a conformist society, it becomes necessary to medicate some people to make them...
Once that switched, broadband network is built, it won't matter much what people plug into it -- TVs, PCs or some device that hasn't been invented. Like that of the telephone system before it, the power of the information highway will come from the new ways it allows people to connect, not with machines but with each other. And for that privilege, even the most stubborn couch potato might agree to get wired...