Word: videos
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...cars has grown from 17% in 1970 to 62%; those with color TVs from 26% to 98.9%; those with air conditioners from 5.9% to 40%. Signs of a national shopping spree are everywhere. A new government survey of 65,000 families found that the most popular consumer purchases include video tape recorders ($700) and pianos...
...European and American scientists who shared a loosely defined mandate: to make dumb machines act as if they had human intelligence. Over the past 25 years, the AI laboratories of such institutions as M.I.T., Stanford, Carnegie-Mellon and Scotland's University of Edinburgh have introduced word processing, video games, time sharing, robot control and advanced missile-guidance systems. Lately, AI research has concentrated on building systems that can mimic the brain work of skilled experts in such fields as oil exploration, battlefield command and computer design itself. Now Japan has made it a national goal to take its place...
...more popular than the country's movie stars. Though Japanese cinema was a strong force in Asia (so much so that in Thailand the word nippon came to mean movies), its films were virtually unknown in the West. Haifa century later it would take an alliance of television, video games and indifferent product to reduce Japan to the status of also-ran among national cinemas. As Film Historian Joseph Anderson wrote last year, "The Japanese film industry, in contrast to so many other Japanese manufacturers, has no significant foreign markets and the worst prospects at home. It has become...
Since it was introduced into the American workplace in the 1960s, the video display terminal (VDT) has become an indispensable tool for 10 million clerical workers, typesetters, writers, editors and computer programmers. But as the number of people who regularly use VDTs has increased, so have complaints that long-term exposure to the machines can cause a variety of afflictions, including muscle fatigue, eyestrain, cataracts and miscarriages. Two years ago, a panel of vision experts and psychologists assembled by the National Research Council began a scientific investigation of the effects of VDTs on eyesight...
Well, with a bit of sorcery and even more business acumen, Shelley Duvall, 34, has turned her fantasy into video reality. She is executive producer and guiding spirit of Faerie Tale Theatre, a series of hour-long classics featuring marquee names, which has become a popular and critical success on Showtime, the nation's second-largest pay-television service. Showtime, with 4 million-plus subscribers, is currently airing the sixth of her fanciful tales, The Sleeping Beauty, and plans to show three more by the end of the year. So far, Duvall has enticed Joan Collins, Elliott Gould, Maureen...