Word: rom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...potential victim of all this convergence seems to be the industry supporting the CD-ROM, which is now the fastest-growing form of multimedia. A single 5-in.-diameter CD-ROM can hold everything from video games to a 21- volume encyclopedia. But within a decade, the millions of bits of information now stored on these discs will probably be piped into homes from video servers. That threat of eventual obsolescence, however, does little to alter projections of almost $10 billion a year in combined CD-ROM hardware and software sales in the interim...
...fates of the TV set and the CD-ROM, plus the ever changing prospect of even newer technologies, are reasons why it is so tough for builders of the information highway to decide what it is they should be selling. Companies that focus on providing Hollywood-packaged films, for example, could find consumers turning to an array of low-budget movies (some of them interactive) produced by small studios or even amateur filmmakers using increasingly available commercial cameras and multimedia kits. But companies that look to profit as distributors run the risk of becoming little more than common carriers, with...
...computer is now an accepted tool,'' says David Ross, director of the Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art. ``In the art world, it is no longer an issue.'' From the fashionably bohemian precincts of lower Manhattan to London and Los Angeles, the cultural world abounds with computer-aided musicians, CD-ROM virtuosos, painters, photographers and digital artists who are building their own galleries in cyberspace -- all in addition to the digitally savvy filmmakers who have already transformed cinema. Lanier embodies a whole new genre of music that uses computers to create and disseminate its own distinctive sounds. Another practitioner...
...nation's poorer areas, however -- places like Washington's Anacostia neighborhood, the hollows of Appalachia or Miami's Liberty City -- families with IBM Activas, NEC CD-ROM drives, modems, Internet connections and all the other paraphernalia so beloved by computer users are few and far between. Therein lies one of the most troubling aspects of the emerging information age. In an era in which success is increasingly identified with the ability to use computers and gain access to cyberspace, will the new technology only widen the gap between rich and poor, educated and uneducated, blacks, whites and Hispanics? As Commerce...
...will become. Faithful human couriers still haul letters by mule train to the Havasupai tribe in Arizona and don Santa suits to deliver cards and presents at Christmastime. Besides, the 206-year-old service is planning for its survival -- experimenting with ventures ranging from stamp collectors' services on CD-ROM to the certification of business- related electronic communications, similar to what it now does for postmarked, certified and registered mail. Another scheme would locate electronic kiosks in post offices, allowing Americans without private Internet connections to exchange E-mail and tap into online services offered by a growing number...