Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high-tech wonders are created in a surprisingly low-tech cluster of buildings in a suburban office park. A sign out front says THE KERNER COMPANY --a deception intended, company officials say, to keep away youngsters who used to rummage through the garbage looking for cast-off Darth Vaders and E.T.s. The ambiance is casual; blue jeans and running shoes are ubiquitous, and a family spirit prevails. "It's a group effort rather than a search for personal glory," says George Joblove, who joined ILM last year to help develop a computer-graphics department. "There's a nice sense...
Despite its high-tech tools, ILM uses homey techniques as well. Clouds might be simulated by wads of cotton, the dirt on a remote planet by a pile of cork. The walls of the mine in Indiana Jones were made of scrunched-up aluminum foil, spray-painted to look like rocks. "We have no commitment to using the most sophisticated techniques," says Warren Franklin, ILM's general manager. "We go with what works...
...while profits climbed even faster, by 45%, to $566 million. At a time when the U.S. suffers from a record trade deficit, Boeing is the country's No. 1 exporter of manufactured products, with foreign sales of $5.8 billion last year. Amid fears that America is losing its high-tech edge, Boeing is moving full speed ahead with a radically new passenger plane, code-named the 7J7, for the 1990s and beyond...
This vision, too, may be a little far-fetched. Still, says Patrick Gordon, a communications expert at the Yankee Group, the Boston-based high-tech research firm, "the integrated services digital network is not a blue sky, Buck Rogers fantasy. It's already...
...lived in Fredericksburg and four neighboring counties. The Star had six editorial employees, type was set by hand, and circulation fell shy of 6,500. Today the population is 134,800 and Spotsylvania is one of the fastest-growing counties in Virginia. Meanwhile, the Star has entered the high-tech age, with 23 computer terminals in the cramped newsroom and an offset printing press next door...