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...will be seen by everyone on the globe. But in the next century anyone will be able to create a movie, music, literature, a magazine or a video game and distribute it as bits over the network to billions. At least in theory. Brilliant Digital is marketing a developers' tool kit that makes it relatively simple to cobble together your own interactive cartoons. "You don't need any programming experience," insists Cheri Grand, a company spokeswoman. "I could create a Heather Locklear character, animate her and do whatever I want with her." Traditional Hollywood studios, she notes, have lots...
Friends say that Weld's personal manner is hismost effective political tool...
Until last week. A reporter at the online magazine Forbes Digital Tool tried to verify Glass's latest effort, the lovingly detailed story of a pimply 15-year-old computer hacker recruited by the corporation whose data network he had just penetrated. The piece features vivid characters (a "super-agent to the super-nerds," who is said to represent 300 hackers), a trade association called the National Assembly of Hackers and a California software firm called Jukt Micronics. None of it is real. When Digital Tool started asking questions, Glass created a phony corporate website for Jukt and a bogus...
Some critics view the new technology as a frivolous tool of education. But more and more, computers are at the very heart of how schools teach and children learn. Other critics are worried about the changes they imagine the new technology may bring. Over the course of history, progress often spurs anxiety. When Greek merchants began importing Egyptian paper into Athens, Socrates condemned it, complaining that the use of paper would, according to writer Nicholas Allard, depersonalize interactions, disrupt human ties and "replace public discourse with less desirable and potentially dangerous private communication...
...communicate and shop. And in one sense, the Internet is good for the American mind. Up through the early '90s, everyday written communication seemed to be dying out. Thanks to e-mail and fax machines, writing has come back. In this respect, the Internet could be a fine teaching tool--a way to share good, scarce writing teachers. One teacher could manage a whole district of students if they were all connected electronically...