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...ravaged the buffalo still exist, Native American sculptor Bob Haozous constructed 100 steel buffalo, then videotaped art-gallery patrons fighting to buy the pieces before they were sold out. Korean-American Nam June Paik, whose influential multimedia artworks incorporate TVs and computers, says he was talking about the information superhighway in his own work long before it became a catchword. And architect Maya Ying Lin, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, designed the black wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, a stark monument that compels visitors not to revel in the glory of war, but to reflect on its sorrows...
...further among knowledge workers. Says John McCann, a professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business: "Sometimes I use the analogy of the cowboy. He used to ride around the West signing on with different ranches when they needed work." Similarly, he thinks, cybercowboys will ride the information superhighway, not working regularly for anybody but contracting with one corporation after another to do specific, limited jobs. McCann goes further yet to endorse the vision of a Japanese author, Taichi Fakayia, of a kind of cybernetic updating of the Middle Ages: computer and E-mail jockeys will work mostly...
...missing child is sought on the information superhighway...
...reason is that the search for Polly is being conducted along America's rapidly emerging information superhighway. By generating an electronic poster bearing a photo of Polly and an FBI sketch of her kidnapper, the people of Petaluma have been able to disseminate the images to computer screens and fax machines across the country. That information, in turn, has been converted into 7 million high-quality hard copies -- the posters now on bulletin boards and lampposts everywhere...
...novel use of the superhighway was engineered largely by three California men. The day after the 45,000 residents of Petaluma awoke to news of Polly's kidnapping, Gary French, an unemployed computer-systems salesman, rushed to the police station to offer his help. As he watched a fax machine slowly churn out poor reproductions of a suspect sketch, he thought, "We can do this all electronically." When Bill Rhodes, who owns a local printshop, and Larry Magid, a syndicated computer columnist, had the same idea, the police put them in touch...