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...insect masses presented precisely the sort of complex problems that digital innovators live for--that thrilling "You're kidding!" moment when the boss hands out a visual wish list for the tech guys to make come true. A recent tour of the Pixar studio, hidden in the freeway sprawl east of San Francisco, made clear how projects like A Bug's Life erase the boundaries between technology and art. Model builders sculpt clay facsimiles of the film's characters. Traditional animators act out roles before video cameras to decide just how the characters' limbs should move. Graphics jocks transform...
...last, through extensive use of the World Wide Web, we have found the ultimate electronic hallucinogen [TECHNOLOGY, Nov. 9]. When enough computer-stoned Americans are floating through the neon-hued "planetwide sprawl of loosely interconnected chat rooms" called palaces, the criminal drug trade might just dry up for lack of demand. No one really needed opium after commercial television came along. Now it looks as if the Web will provide everything in the way of new experiences that Timothy Leary promised. JAMES ALEXANDER THOM Bloomington...
...Stone Age had its watering holes. The '70s had its singles bars. Bill Clinton has his little study off the Oval Office. Now cyberspace offers us the Palace, a planetwide sprawl of loosely interconnected chat rooms that in the past few months has spread like kudzu across the Net. Still haven't designed your own home page on the Web? Don't sweat it. This fall, at least, building your own palace is where...
...avoid that sorry fate? You'll want to weigh two crucial questions. One: Is the gadget digital? In short order, virtually all data will be rendered in computer language to move fluently through the Net's electronic sprawl. Analog phones and plain-film cameras will be about as worthwhile tomorrow as Betamax movies are in our VHS world today. To be sure, you'll still pay extra to go digital: ordinary Canon cameras, with their quaint loadable film, run from $200 bargains on up the price scale, while the digital Canon Sureshot costs $699 at New York City's 47th...
...more on guard than the Amish themselves. The twin pressures of their own population growth and suburban sprawl have encroached on their way of life; 40% of the Amish work in jobs unconnected to farming, according to Donald Kraybill, who has written about half a dozen books on Amish social structures. Alert to the influences of the outside or "English" world, the Lancaster County bishops warned their congregations about drugs last fall, writing in an open letter, "Parents, beware the evil changes which your children could or might be going through...