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...production of American Recordings was high-concept and low-tech. The taping was done in Cash's cabin in Tennessee and the living room of Rubin's house in Los Angeles. "We recorded more than 70 songs in nine months, maybe closer to 100," says Cash. "Just everything I knew. I got into areas of music that ((Rubin)) wasn't familiar with, like country gospel, black gospel, country blues, Appalachian mountain music." In the end, just 13 of the songs were selected for the finished album...
...card," says the 33-year-old education consultant. She shuns checks too, having signed up for a new computer service called ScanFone that lets her pay her credit-card, utility and 17 other bills in just 10 minutes by tapping a few numbers on the keypad of a high-tech telephone that sends instructions to the company's central computer. "I guess you don't have to see your money to have it or spend it," she says. "It's a little weird, but dollars aren't clean anyway...
Above all, high-tech payment systems create new problems of privacy even as they increase convenience and efficiency. Maryland became the first state to provide debit cards for welfare clients last year when it issued its "Independence Card" to 170,000 households that received public aid. The cards enable recipients to shop at supermarkets such as Giant and Safeway as well as at 3,500 other stores around the state; families on welfare can also use the cards to withdraw cash from ATM machines and to pay utility bills and rent for public housing. Among other benefits, these cards have...
What any good executive can expect is that success breeds imitation. Where Disney and Warner go, competitors will follow. Sony, which owns the Columbia Pictures library, has opened high-tech prototype stores in its Manhattan headquarters that emphasize the parent company's electronic equipment but also feature bibelots from current sitcoms (Seinfeld coffee mugs, Ed Bundy WHY ME? T shirts) and old movies (Three Stooges dolls, an On the Waterfront I COULDA BEEN A CONTENDER sweatshirt). This month, in the same building, the company will unveil Sony Wonder, a free exhibition space with the first permanent interactive movie theater...
...Then John Q. Public walks into a computer store, and he can't tell whether it's a legitimate chip or if it started out in a crook's pocket," says Sergeant Jim McMahon, who heads a four-member San Jose Police Department task force that focuses on high-tech crime...