Word: todays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...devices from last year--and the market is just starting to expand. (Sales of home PCs have been increasing at the pace of 23% a year.) According to the research firm IDC of Mountain View, Calif., the market for information appliances will grow from $485 million in the U.S. today to $4.2 billion in 2002, when it will surpass the demand for home PCs. "Computers are still too complicated and too expensive," says IDC's Sean Kaldor...
Much Furby hype originated with the geek-chic set. The magazine you're reading is partly responsible. After Toy Fair '98, TIME ran a Techwatch item mentioning them. USA Today also noticed, and after an electronics fair in May, CBS This Morning did a segment. That ginned up interest last summer, even though Furby's complicated innards meant it wouldn't be ready for stores until fall...
Beside a dead maple, my neighbor from the next farm, Mark Shepard, cradles a Remington .280 rifle. I am a spectator today. So is Mark's son Glenn, 14. Glenn, a crack shot, has hunted turkey and pheasant with shotguns and deer with bow and arrow. But in New York State, he cannot legally go after deer with a gun until he is 16. That doesn't matter today. Glenn is excited but silent, testing the wind with a wet finger, flicking his eyes through the woods like any good hunter, alert to motion...
...mostly the country buys its meat in cling-wrap packages at Safeway and Winn-Dixie. "We've lost our connection to the land and the outside world," says Jerry DeBin, Alabama's coordinator of conservation education. "Most people don't even notice which way the wind is blowing today. The squirrel or deer may be eating more today because a change in the weather is coming, but we don't pay attention to these things anymore...
...made animated films much cheaper, of course; actually producing movies for less money would violate the laws of Hollywood physics. "The cost for visual images comes down every year," says Carl Rosendahl, president of Pacific Data Images, which did effects for Antz. "But you'd rarely want to do today the same thing you did yesterday. So the per-shot cost doesn't drop, but your money buys things you couldn't even imagine five or six years...