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These books are not meant to be read so much as cited. Sometimes there is a CD-ROM version of the Fat True Book in which you can see, in three sparkling dimensions, the kindergarten classroom where the hero of the biography first learned how to double-knot her shoelaces...
...still don't see why this is news, however. Pornography is available at Video Pros, at Out-of-Town News, through the mail and on CD-ROM. Is it any surprise that it is also available over the Internet? Every new technology has at some point or other been used as a medium for sexually explicit materials...
...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-TV subscribers in San Diego -- which would let it transmit data 100 times as fast as the fastest modem...
...Seattle's Hawthorne School, says his fifth-graders often spend their lunch hour and recess logging on to programs like Microsoft's Creative Writer, which helps children write stories by suggesting possible situations and opening lines. Another favorite is Microsoft's Encarta, a best-selling encyclopedia on CD-ROM. "It's had a huge impact, especially in their writing," Breitstein says. "They don't even know they're improving their skills...
...first concert, promoters spent $3 million; Woodstock '94 cost more than $30 million. Tickets to the original were $18; this time they were $135 and had to be purchased in pairs. In 1969 there weren't even official T shirts; in 1994 there will be an official CD-ROM. The Eco-Village, ostensibly devoted to educating the public about the environment, resembled a strip mall where you could buy clothes, camping gear and even Woodstock air ($2 a bottle). The promoters will reap an estimated $5 million to $8 million from pay-per-view fees: the concert was broadcast...