Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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History Laid Bare's only failing is its author's refusal to acknowledge that the book works best as a procrastination tool. In the introduction and in the running commentary which links the anecdotes together, Zacks sets himself up as a righteous liberator of history from "Victorians and other prudish scholars" who took out all the good parts in history. Zacks' condescension towards his subjects is irritating. He would have done better to get out of the way and let his ribald material speak for itself...
...Palomar Observatory. Each student has chosen three stars and has been asked to calculate their brightness and temperature based on what the pupils see on the plates and can glean from a computer program called Voyager. Unlike Archaeotype, Voyager is an off-the- shelf program, but it is a tool of awesome power, simulating a view of the heavens from any point on earth, at any time, past or present. Thompson's course has always been popular, but in recent years it has achieved an almost cultlike status at the school. Though a vivid lecturer and the co-author...
...will bring online networks to home computers via TV cables. Motorola plans to test the system this year in a venture with TCI in suburban Chicago. (Comcast is experimenting with a similar system in Philadelphia, using equipment made by Zenith.) Apple, in conjunction with Texas Instruments, will market a tool it calls FireWire, designed to hook all such devices together so they can be operated from a single ``touchpad,'' or remote-control device...
...Within 20 years, not only did nearly every American home have a television set, but most of the sets were in color. Families were eating their dinner on trays in front of the TV rather than miss one minute of a show. Madison Avenue had found a powerful new tool that allowed it to reach huge numbers of consumers right in their homes. Advertising flowered with creativity, producing its own 60-second shows called commercials, building on copy written for print (``Wonder Bread helps build strong bodies 12 ways!'') and eventually creating new art forms with jingles...
...name is not yet common fare on the cocktail-party circuit of the cultural elite, he is a star of an astoundingly energized new movement of musicians and visual artists who are defining and redefining their work through the use of cybertechnology. ``The computer is now an accepted tool,'' says David Ross, director of the Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art. ``In the art world, it is no longer an issue.'' From the fashionably bohemian precincts of lower Manhattan to London and Los Angeles, the cultural world abounds with computer-aided musicians, CD-ROM virtuosos, painters, photographers and digital artists...