Word: techs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most people have never heard of the fourth largest software company in the world. That's because Autodesk, based in San Rafael, California, has amassed a quiet fortune by hawking its big-ticket computer-aided design product, AutoCAD, to a demanding elite: high-tech engineers, industrial designers and architects...
What lies on the other side of the bridge? For pessimists the new millennium is time's equivalent of those stretches of pre-Columbian ocean on which European mapmakers wrote, "Here be monsters." Either/or: The imagination projects either apocalypse or high-tech wonders, either hell or heaven. Clinton, whose theology is politics, projects a nation going through the biggest changes since industrialization depopulated the farms 100 years ago. Once a balanced budget is in place, he thinks, the basic source of American political conflict in the past decade will have vanished. The country will be ready to search...
...time the newest AIDS medications become available even to rich patients, most of today's 23 million sufferers will be dead, and many millions more will be yearning for a cure. But there are low-tech measures available now that can save millions of lives, even before a vaccine is found. Education, literacy and social justice will make the world's poor less susceptible to infection. Even the self-interested West cannot afford to sit back and watch the number of infected climb while scientists seek medical solutions. Rich nations have to contribute to prevention efforts throughout the world right...
Those cries have finally been heard. Last week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas marked the long-awaited public debut of the digital video disc, the (putative) New Tech Gadget of all New Tech Gadgets...
Beck says the low-tech nature of rap and folk is what initially attracted him. All rappers need, to paraphrase Where It's At, are two turntables and a microphone; all folk singers need is a guitar. "I always wanted to play music as a kid, play guitar, but it just seemed impossible to me," says Beck. "You turn on the radio, and they'd be playing, what, Huey Lewis or some superproduced '80s music. That music--it was so professional--there didn't seem any way to be able to do that...