Word: silicon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think it's high time people stand up and say, 'Look, you are missing nothing online,' " he says. Stoll has written a controversial new book, Silicon Snake Oil, that he describes as a "yellow warning flag" to would-be networkers. Beware, he says, that when you enter cyberspace, "you are entering a nonexistent universe ... a soluble tissue of nothing...
...past three months, the DreamWorkers have journeyed to the end of the rainbow, to Seattle and Silicon Valley, Wall Street and Europe, and have found several pots of gold. They are securing a $1 billion line of credit from Chemical Bank. More stash will come through advances in such fields as pay TV (HBO), music distribution (MCA could win there), worldwide pay- and free-TV rights. The team is negotiating with the California Public Employee Retirement System (CalPERS) to invest almost $300 million; that deal, which both sides had hoped to present to the CalPERS board last week, is delayed...
...owners listed politics online as one of their highest priorities. And the newest political parties and movements often show a high-tech underpinning. Ross Perot's 1992 organizers, for example, drew their highest ratios of petition signers in high-tech strongholds -- from Massachusetts' Route 128 across the nation to Silicon Valley and Silicon Prairie. Upbeat theorists are prognosticating a ``virtual Washington'' in which members of Congress can debate and vote from back home, and several Representatives have asked to be allowed to vote from their districts. Newt Gingrich, the first self-proclaimed futurist to become the Speaker of the House...
...principal means of bringing the electronic highway into the home is a game everyone in the information industry plays. One side argues that the familiar ``boob tube'' will hold its ground. ``The TV set will continue to be the dominant home consumer appliance,'' declares Tom Jermoluk, president of Silicon Graphics, which built the microchips for the set-top boxes and huge media servers that are being used to shuttle movies to and from households in Time Warner's Florida test. Others say television will soon be passe. ``There is a critical limitation in set-top boxes,'' argues Theodore Waitt, chief...
...Future Sound of London, one of Britain's trendiest club bands, performed ``live'' last November at the Kitchen in New York City -- while physically remaining in its studio on Chapter Road in Dollis Hill, London. The group's banks of synthesizers and samplers, as well as its three-dimensional silicon graphics, were wired through the Internet to speakers and screens 5,000 miles away. The band members promise that within 18 months they will produce a 3-D film of themselves performing in a virtual environment. Piqued by the possibilities of a new medium, Old Guard rockers are seeking...