Word: techs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CERTAINLY ISN'T ART -- MORE LIKE A BIG-SCREEN video game. The first ever interactive movie, I'm Your Man, which opened last week in New York, is a high-tech picture puzzle that allows an audience to pick its protagonist and plot the action. Choices come along every 90 seconds or so in this campy 20- minute caper, and viewers vote with a three-button pistol grip installed on their armrests. The on-screen tallies are instantaneous, thanks to laser-disc technology, and the majority rules. This first film (soon in seven more theaters), has 68 possible permutations...
...dying process, much as the natural-childbirth movement did to childbearing over the past generation. In a sense they are racing against the radicals. Once they can offer a more gentle and dignified alternative to either a life ground down by pain or a death in a high-tech hell, the demand for Dr. Kevorkian's service will disappear...
...does not intend to eliminate its armed forces entirely, of course, but it does not know precisely what external dangers it will have to defend against or what it might need for the purpose. Military planners in Moscow say they want to organize a relatively small, fast-moving high-tech force that could react swiftly to security threats along the troubled periphery. The generals expect to bring troop strength down to 1.5 million officers and men sometime after 1993. How soon depends on finding ways to house and employ the hundreds of thousands of professional officers who will be demobilized...
...hold on. Like a high-tech phoenix, the U.S. semiconductor industry appears to be rising again. Rejuvenated by innovative product lines, protectionist trade policies and state-of-the-art manufacturing, chipmakers are staging a stunning comeback. Such Japanese firms as NEC and Toshiba are still on top, with a 45% share of the $60 billion worldwide chip market. But their grip is slipping, while American companies are closing the gap and may be on the verge of retaking the lead. The U.S. share has surged to 42% this year, up from the 1989 low of 37%. Inspired by the revival...
...wondering where to find $100,000 to send a child to a private college for four years. Many are convinced that if they were much richer -- or much poorer -- money would not be a problem. Some view a private- college education as an entitlement, much like unlimited high-tech health care. Such attitudes harden during difficult economic times and a tight job market, when a degree from a top school becomes all the more precious just when it is hardest to afford...