Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...longtime friend and broadcast colleague Artie "The One Man Party" alternates between conversation in the studio with Skip and their wowed visitors and occasional 10 second quips on the air between breaks. Artie demonstrates the VoxPro computer system which records all of the phone calls which he receives. The screen displays the sound frequency wavelength of the call so that Artie can go back to edit the conversation later. When heactually plays calls on the air, he is playing theedited version rather than the live version. Atapproximately 9 p.m., Artie congratulates the 12thcaller in a contest to win some arcane...
...finally enter the Info Center feeling no wiser and certainly no prouder of this University as a result of the interactive tour. The interior doesn't help. Decked out in red-brick and Harvard chairs, the center boasts a cubicle fondly described as a "reading room," a projection screen and computer kiosk of sorts. The reading room material is mostly about the history of Harvard and its sidekick, Radcliffe the Girl Wonder. The movies boast such gripping titles as "Harvard: A Video Portrait" and "Harvard: An International Community...
Also promising, Cahill said, is the legislative human-rights screen, which will guard against infringements of any future bill of rights...
...expected to not be able to type. I did not expect that this would so drastically change my life. I did not realize until the past moth how much my existence revolved around a keyboard. Somehow, thought naturally translates into finger movement and words on a screen. This is not an easy habit to break...
...hero--so ran Boorstin's prophecy--was being replaced by the celebrity, and where once our leaders seemed grander versions of ourselves, now they just looked like us on a giant screen. Nowadays, as we read about the purported telephone messages of a sitting President and listen to the future King of England whisper to his mistress, the power of technology not just to dehumanize but to demystify seems 30 times stronger than even Boorstin predicted...