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...trade restrictions that still restrain international airline traffic. Many governments fear that foreign carriers are gaining too great an advantage in their markets, undermining local jobs and revenues. Says Edmund Greenslet, publisher of the Airline Monitor, a trade publication: "National feelings about airlines obviously trigger more passion than TVs and automobiles. Airlines are a highly symbolic way of establishing national identity in the world...
Well, almost. At 10 p.m. on the night of the party, my suitemates were still balancing the TVs atop stacks of furniture, hooking them up to the VCR, and plastering loose stereo wires onto the walls with liberal amounts of tape. Meanwhile, in my bedroom, I hooked up the blacklights and, having set out a plateful of fluorescent chalk, wrote BE CREATIVE on one wall so that our guests would get the idea. Upstairs, sofas, a second stereo system, and mixed drinks were arranged to create a cozy "get-away-from-the-dance-floor-and-beer" setup. Within two hours...
...will probably respond to commands that are spoken or scribbled as well as typed. Families will gather around TV sets with big, high-definition screens and a large menu of interactive options. After a few decades, those familiar forms will blend together and begin to lose their distinct identities. TVs, vcrs, CD players, computers, telephones, video games, newspapers and mail-order catalogs will merge to create new products and services that can only be dimly imagined today...
...have to provide more opportunities for education. Currently television is misused, utilized mostly for entertainment. But I think TV entertainment can be a means for education, as Sesame Street has been. There should be a global project to launch a satellite for this purpose. And perhaps we could operate TVs with solar energy...
...chosen. Just two years ago, high-definition television (HDTV) was a symbol of everything that was wrong with the American electronics industry. After ceding most of the market for today's television sets to Japanese and European manufacturers, the U.S. was about to lose the market for tomorrow's TVs as well. It seemed only a matter of time before U.S. consumers started replacing their squat, fuzzy receivers with crisp, wide- screen sets built around a made-in-Japan technology called analog HDTV...