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...Europe-wide standardization in products of the future. Twelve participating ESPRIT companies agreed in March to adopt common specifications for computers and office equipment, and telecommunications officials have begun to discuss common guidelines for buying new equipment. Last March, French President François Mitterrand visited California's Silicon Valley and liked what he saw. "We know that our country is late in undertaking this phase of its evolution," he told an audience of U.S. entrepreneurs. "We are making a considerable effort to overcome this lag." Yet for France and Western Europe to succeed, there will have...
...success may have more to do with the homogeneity and work ethic of Japanese society than with the wisdom of its Ministry of International Trade and Industry. (Actually, the Japanese and the neoliberals seem to be going in circles: lately, delegations of Japanese businessmen have been poking around Silicon Valley, trying to learn about good old-fashioned American entrepreneurialism. And competition among factories in Japan is often fierce.) Somehow the Japanese vision of happy workers, loyally singing company songs as they program their robots, is hard to imagine in a Detroit auto plant...
...Democrats four times a night next week. It is not an anniversary that many aging strippers would want to make a point of celebrating, but Doda says coyly, "I agree with Einstein, who said time is kind of a relative thing." Perhaps, and as long as the famous silicon implants that swelled her bustline to 44 inches remain a permanent thing, she may be right. But the Broadway strip scene gets a little seedier every year, and even Doda admits that change is inevitable. Says she: "You gotta go with the flow or stay stuck...
...Silicon Valley's microchipped wonder companies, Atari was one of the earliest and most colorful. It gave birth to the video-game industry and churned out amusements like Pong, Asteroids and the home version of Pac-Man. It saw its sales explode from $30 million in 1976 to a peak of $2 billion in 1982. It spun off famous employee alumni, like Steven Jobs, co-founder and chairman of Apple Computer. Physically, it spread to 49 buildings around Sunnyvale, Calif. But its fall came even faster, as a fickle public cooled to its video games. Losses hit $539 million...
Last April the automaker spent $3 million for an 11% interest in Teknowledge, a Silicon Valley computer-software firm...