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...global revolution encompasses every instrument of communication, from pagers to cell phones to CD-ROM. The main gauge of change in information delivery is the boom in sales of modems, which are expected to grow at an average rate of 17.2% worldwide (22.4% in Europe alone) between 1994 and 1998, and the expanding reach of the Internet and such commercial operators as CompuServe. ``Sales of CD-ROM drives are doubling and tripling this year,'' says Deborah Monas, an analyst at London's Kagan World Media. The next 10 years are expected to bring a boom that will put much...
...service is adding new subscribers in German-speaking countries at a rate of 1,500 a week -- small by U.S. standards, but significant in a Europe with only a third of America's PC penetration. Government controls and low consumer consciousness, however, remain bigger problems than access. Most CD-ROM drives are made in Asia, for example, yet two-thirds of installed CD-ROM units are in America. Japan, a nation of superb hardware innovators, is ranked only 18th in the world in terms of PCs -- largely because there is not much to connect with in Japan. Japan is also...
...send me E-mail; I'm sure I won't be that far away from cyberspace. I still have to finish tuning up my brand-new Pentium 90 speedster with the 2-gigabyte SCSI drive, 32 megs of screaming RAM, a 17-in., 16.7 million color screen, 4x CD-ROM drive, V.34 superdata highway modem. But before taking it out for a spin...
...this year's screenings, the talk was not only about actors, directors and hip new movies, but also about the information superhighway. Gathered in Park City, Utah, in January, the Beautiful People heard the experts talk about two-way media, explored online services and debated the merits of CD-ROM technology. ``It's going to be like a geologic upheaval,'' Redford said. ``We're going to have to sit and watch as the pirates of the high seas lock ships and duke...
Eugene Koh '97 is Remote Staff Manager for America OnLine. His latest musical effort is the soundtrack to the CD-ROM flight simulator Renegade Legion: Battle For Jacob's Star, released this week by Strategic Simulations, Inc. His ramblings will return to this space in two weeks, on Wednesday, March...