Word: virtually
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...week goes by without at least one new newspaper or magazine or television network pushing its stake into the ground and raising an ONLINE banner over the home office. More and more publications seem to feel that if you don't have a claim staked out on the virtual newsstand -- either on existing information services like CompuServe or Prodigy or with your own Website directly on the Internet -- you're nowhere. By the end of 1994, more than 450 publications had embraced the electronic option. CompuServe alone is host to upwards of 200 magazines and 55 newspapers, from Ebony...
...newest political parties and movements often show a high-tech underpinning. Ross Perot's 1992 organizers, for example, drew their highest ratios of petition signers in high-tech strongholds -- from Massachusetts' Route 128 across the nation to Silicon Valley and Silicon Prairie. Upbeat theorists are prognosticating a ``virtual Washington'' in which members of Congress can debate and vote from back home, and several Representatives have asked to be allowed to vote from their districts. Newt Gingrich, the first self-proclaimed futurist to become the Speaker of the House, is in the process of putting Capitol Hill online, allowing computer users...
...CREATING VIRTUAL WASHINGTON Perot has already urged national town meetings, a group in Pennsylvania is talking about voters advising Washington via an electronic Congress, and nostalgia is growing for a high-tech update of Athenian democracy or of Norman Rockwellian townspeople gathered around a cast-iron stove in rural Vermont. Virtual Washington would be a wired, cyberspatial capital in which U.S. Representatives and Senators could participate from their states or districts, while citizens, too, would have any information, debate or proceeding at their fingertips. G.O.P. presidential candidate Lamar Alexander, who talks about sending members of Congress home for six months...
...club has a narrow entrance on a narrow alley off a narrow side street, far from the virtual malls and 3-D video-game amusement parks that serve as the cash cows for the Metaverse's E-money economy. Inside, there's a few Rasters on break, but it's mostly people ``wearing'' more creative avatars. In the Metaverse, there's no part of your virtual body you can't pierce, brand or tattoo in an effort to look weirder than the next...
...live band onstage -- jacked in from a studio in Prague -- isn't very good, so I duck into the back room where there are virtual racks full of tapes you can sample, listening to a few seconds from each song. If you like it, you can download the whole album, with optional interactive liner notes, videos and sheet music...