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...automotive industry is finally moving from the Iron Age to the Silicon Age," says Timothy Leuliette, president of ITT Automotive, which produces electronic and structural components for the Big Three. "No one should think of Detroit anymore in terms of steel stampings and iron castings. It's the largest consumer-electronics industry in the world. The vehicles are going to become smarter in how they stop smart, how they handle smart, and how they keep you from getting into trouble...
...cast is terrific. Douglas, with Fatal Attraction and Basic Instinct behind him, knows all about playing male victimization without total loss of amour propre. Moore's ferocity is totally unredeemed, therefore totally riveting. Donald Sutherland as their boss is computer-like: he has an almost-human brain and a silicon chip where his heart should be. They and a very good supporting cast often ground Disclosure in some kind of behavioral honesty, almost turn it into a realistic portrait of the modern American workplace--full of false camaraderie, anxious rumors and secret status warfare. But not to worry. When truth...
There are some who argue that Gates may be overreaching by taking on the Internet-that online services could become, as an America Online executive put it, "Microsoft's Vietnam." Dave Winer, president of a Silicon Valley software company called UserLand, sees the extraordinary growth of the Internet as a rebellion against Microsoft. "The users outfoxed us," he says. "While the software industry was following Bill Gates, the users went another way. They took control. And once the users take control, they never give it back...
...system, built in collaboration with Silicon Graphics, AT&T, Scientific-Atlanta and a long list of subcontractors, is almost dizzyingly complex. Huge racks of computer disk drives called file servers store movies and other "video assets" in digital form. Giant switches called ATMS shuttle prodigious quantities of data at blistering speeds. A set-top box with five times the computing power of a top-of-the-line IBM PC downloads images from the server at the rate of 30 pictures a second. Press a button on the remote, and the signal travels through cable-TV lines, fiber-optic wires, switches...
...says video games are dead? Not this digital gorilla, fetched from the old arcade game and redrawn in eye-popping 3-D by the same Silicon Graphics computers that brought the dinosaurs to life in Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park. Donkey Kong Country has been Nintendo's smash hit of this Christmas season. In fact, the game in its first week of release in November brought in more money (nearly $35 million) than the Disney studio's box-office gorilla The Santa Clause...