Word: teche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...imagine just how strenuous an effort--much of it shot in raked angles and presented in quick cuts by director Tony Scott--is required of Dean to get his life back and his tormentors chastened. You can probably imagine, as well, the gleam, sheen and extensiveness of the high-tech machinery that a well-endowed bureaucracy can deploy to torment a citizen on which its baleful eye has fallen. You may even be able to predict the chipper amorality of the techies manning the keyboards and terminals. What do they care about ends when the means...
...Justice Department begins Week Six of its hard-hitting case, Microsoft's blithe confidence is starting to resemble a room-size mainframe computer that operates on punch cards: it's more than a little out of date. Executives from Intel, Apple and other high-tech leaders have been parading into federal court in Washington with tales of being bullied, bloodied and browbeaten by Microsoft. Even onetime skeptics among the experts following the case are starting to ask, What if the government actually wins this thing...
Indeed. A revolution is under way in animation. The terrain is your local multiplex, and the insurgents are goateed, stock-optioned tech-heads armed with graphics software and high-powered workstations. Once upon a time, animated movies were the sole domain of winsome beauties and fearsome beasts, all lovingly drawn by hand. That era ended three years ago this month with the release of Toy Story, the first purely computer-generated feature and the only animated film to near the $200 million box-office mark since 1994's The Lion King...
Breathing life into the new movie's verdant vistas and 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...
...casinos of Las Vegas actually lose money during the week of Comdex. The annual high-tech event is by far the country's largest trade show, with more than 200,000 people showing up this year. For a week some of the wiliest folks from the world's richest and most powerful companies drop in on a place that specializes in separating fools from their money. Every night the pocket-protector crowd flocks to the gaming tables, and you can see the pit bosses tense up. If ever there was a time to suspect that someone at, say, the roulette...