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...cable channels and R- or X-rated movies. Its sponsor, Representative Dick Zimmer of New Jersey, is also pushing for a law that would reach the nation's 959,000 state prisoners by denying federal prison money to any state that did not ban such things as in-cell TVs and coffee makers, body-building equipment and any food better than that served to U.S. soldiers...
...reason the sinews of community are so hard to restore is that they are at odds with free markets. Capitalism not only spews out cars, TVs and other antisocial technologies; it also sorts people into little vocational boxes and scatters the boxes far and wide. Economic opportunity is what drew farm boys into cities, and it has been fragmenting families ever since. There is thus a tension within conservative ideology between laissez-faire economics and family values, as various people have noted. (The Unabomber complains that conservatives "whine about the decay of traditional values," yet "enthusiastically support technological progress...
...like a horse or a bicycle.'' Yet other cybervisionaries say what's most likely to happen is that computers and televisions will continue to serve as complementary, rather than competing, electronic boxes in the home. That way, people could use computers to read E-mail or chat online, and TVs to watch movies or customized news broadcasts...
...computer has become ensconced as a member of the American family, it was dispelled at the turn of the year by some startling statistics. For the first time ever, consumers in 1994 bought $8 billion worth of PCs -- just a smidgen away from the $8.3 billion they spent on TVs. The sales record in terms of dollars is bound to fall to the computer soon, though the TV's cheaper price guarantees its dominion in numbers for a while...
...TVs are turning into telephones, and PCs into video games...