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Interstate '76, a new CD-ROM game from Activision, doesn't exactly recall the most seductive parts of the disco decade, but it does offer a great laugh or two. With the gas crisis still raging, bands of vigilantes (who look suspiciously like the waiting line at Studio 54) are blasting their way around the Southwest. Your mission: to join the pack and stop a rival gang of terrorists. All good fun, but why load up PCs, those most '90s of devices, with this tribute to the '70s? "The future," explains developer Zack Norman, "is boring." Maybe...
Sales of Japanese cars equipped with cd-rom and satellite navigation systems are already surging--from 306,000 in 1994 to a projected 750,000 this year. Electronics and software account for 20% of the sticker price of today's new models, up from 5% less than 30 years ago. By 2005, a government advisory panel predicted this spring, Japan's market for information equipment in automobiles will be worth $6.2 billion annually...
...first major product to be created by the partnership is the Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide, a family health-care manual that will be published in 1998 as both a book and a CD-ROM...
...result is an unparalleled collection of tens of thousands of photographs, many of them strikingly beautiful, that has been distilled into four books (a fifth will be published in 1998, along with a CD-ROM and a documentary film) and several major articles in National Geographic (another will appear in the October issue). Most important to scholars, though, is the fact that Beckwith and Fisher are making the collection available to researchers--a priceless ethnographic archive that will endure no matter what happens to the tribes. Beckwith and Fisher, says art historian Christine Mullen Kreamer of the National Museum...
...mind that BMG's Conifer Classics will issue a September release in the U.S. of The Kaplan Mahler Edition, a double CD that includes Kaplan's best-selling recording of the Resurrection Symphony; the Mahler Piano Rolls; and recollections of Mahler by his contemporaries, as well as a CD-ROM component that features photos from Kaplan's book The Mahler Album...