Word: techs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Will Wall Street buy? New York's big-money mandarins have been snubbing Silicon Valley of late, a chill exemplified by Wired Ventures' humiliating failure to float its own IPO last summer. "The new-issues market is not particularly strong right now, particularly for tech stocks," says Standard & Poor's analyst Robert Natale. "Amazon will be an indication of whether bellwether technology stocks can find an audience...
...whether bellwether technology stocks deserve one. Though Amazon isn't yet profitable (what self-respecting Internet IPO candidate is?), its revenues have soared from just half a million in '95 to $16 million in '96. But high-tech veterans laugh, often bitterly, at the idea that bringing a superior product to market early might guarantee success. A good Web concept draws sincere flatterers like flies. Already the Complete Guide to Online Bookstores Web page offers links to some 200 sites, from biggies like the British-based Internet Book Shop to fringe dwellers like Tales to Tell and Bloody Dagger Books...
Every nation gets the TV it deserves. And 1990s America, a land replete with both couch potatoes and high-tech capitalists, surely deserves high-definition television (HDTV), the digital TV signal whose aesthetic pleasures and economic efficiencies will transform the shows we watch and the boxes we watch them on. Last week the Federal Communications Commission voted to give broadcasters free channels on which to broadcast digital versions of their current programs. A few questions about the future of the boob tube...
...advantage of your new digital TV, so expect to shell out $500 or so for one of those. Then again, by the time that analog signs off the airwaves, DVD and DVD-R discs will have put the VCR next to the eight-track on the dust bin of tech history, so that's not much of a problem...
...time versions of such 20-min. shorts as Chaplin's The Rink and Keaton's The Boat, a different one airing about every six weeks. Despite its small, 2-in. by 2.5-in. viewing window (elegantly set within a virtual Art Deco theater), the site's array of low-tech physical humor and grainy black-and-white images has garnered more than 100,000 hits from over 70 countries in just two months...