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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some eavesdropping methods dispense with bugs altogether. Computers give off radio waves that can be picked up by interception equipment outside a building -- in a van parked as far away as a mile, perhaps -- and then translated by another computer. In theory at least, words typed on a computer screen will appear almost simultaneously on a second screen in the van. Experts differ on how close this technique is to being usable. One figures that a skilled technician could put the basic interception equipment together from components that can be bought in any electronics store for about $300. Maybe...
More than two decades have passed since moviegoers first watched James Bond tail a Rolls-Royce to Goldfinger's Alpine retreat by tracking a moving blip across a screen on the dashboard of his Aston Martin. Now advances in computer technology have turned this Hollywood fantasy into automotive reality...
...Menlo Park, Calif., company, is an electronic road map that calculates position by means of dead reckoning. Data from a solid-state compass installed in the vehicle's roof and from sensors mounted on its wheels are processed by a computer in the trunk and displayed on a dashboard screen. The car's position is represented as a fixed triangle; the map, showing a web of streets and avenues, scrolls down as the car moves forward and rotates sideways when it turns...
DriverGuide, produced by Karlin & Collins, a Sunnyvale, Calif., firm, is the electronic equivalent of rolling down a window and asking for directions. The prototype unit looks like an automated-teller machine, but it issues information rather than cash. By punching buttons and choosing from a variety of screen menus, users specify where they want to go. Twenty seconds later, the machine spits out a printed sheet of driving instructions constructed from a data base that contains the location of every intersection and alleyway in the Bay area, including 3,400 turn restrictions and 4,800 traffic lights. Says Barry Karlin...
...sure the pooch service has delivered his nutritionally correct dog food. Then they consult the phone-answering machine, pop dinner into the microwave and finally sink into their Italian leather sofa to watch a videocassette of, say, last week's L.A. Law or Cheers on their high-definition, large-screen stereo television...