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...founder's approach seems to be paying off. When Macworld magazine selected the 10 best Macintosh CD-ROM programs for its March issue, three were ours: TIME Almanac 1993 (Best Almanac CD), Clinton: Portrait of Victory (Best Politics CD) and Seven Days in August (Best History CD). Seven Days is a multimedia account of the week in 1961 when the Berlin Wall was erected. "Of all the discs I surveyed," wrote Macworld editor James A. Martin, "this one is my favorite, for it best exploits the real potential of CD-ROM as a medium that can add depth and perspective...
...spent two years trying to interest record companies in her iconoclastic music, a shotgun marriage of funk, jazz, hip-hop and angry poetry that she calls "brokenhearted revolutionary love songs." Finally, in despair and ready to enroll in barber school, she got a phone call, and a record deal, rom the head of Maverick, who happens to be . . . Madonna...
...Elvis. The King is not dead -- we know that from reading Weekly World News -- but soon he will live, and sing, on the CD-ROM Virtual Graceland. Due out this summer, the Crunch Media disk allows users to roam freely through Presley's haunted mansion, room by room, in 360 degrees shots. Wander into the TV room and play Elvis' hits on his personal phonograph. Noodle on Elvis' piano, strum his guitar, open drawers by clicking on them. Just don't try peeking into Elvis' medicine chest; the bathroom is not open to the public...
...Gabriel's Xplora 1. "But I think this will be a brand-new market segment that didn't even exist before. It's no longer a question of whether this format will take off but when. I'd say within a year or so it will be a CD-ROM world...
Someday, says Harvard molecular biologist Walter Gilbert, that diary -- the entire genetic record -- will fit on a single CD-ROM. "We look upon ourselves as having an infinite potential," he writes in The Code of Codes. "To recognize that we are determined, in a certain sense, by a finite collection of information that is knowable will change our view of ourselves. It is the closing of an intellectual frontier, with which we will have to come to terms...