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Wulf's office, in fact, is a virtual museum of baseball memorabilia and paraphernalia, including a 5 1/2-ft.-long Louisville Slugger and a collection of antique fielders' gloves and catchers' masks. He is also the co-author, along with LIFE managing editor Daniel Okrent, of Baseball Anecdotes (Oxford University Press; 1989). In that compendium, now considered a classic, the authors called Lou Gehrig's record of playing in 2,130 consecutive games during the 1920s and 1930s "unapproachable." Wulf does deserve credit for spotting Ripken's ability, if not his potential as an endurance champ, back in 1982, when...
Relief from TV's isolating and at times depressing effects may come from more communal technologies. The inchoate Internet is already famous for knitting congenial souls together. And as the capacity of phone lines expands, the Net may allow us to, say, play virtual racketball with a sibling or childhood friend in a distant city. But at least in its current form, the Net brings no visual (much less tactile) contact, and so doesn't fully gratify the social machinery in our minds. More generally the Net adds to the information overload, whose psychological effects are still unknown but certainly...
Infowar offices are being set up in the Army, Navy and Air Force. In June the National Defense University in Washington quietly graduated its first class of 16 infowar officers, specially trained in everything from defending against computer attacks to using virtual reality in planning battle maneuvers. Last month the Naval War College at Newport, Rhode Island, finished a global war game that had information-warfare specialists plotting ways to cripple enemy computers. Later this summer senior Pentagon officials will analyze the results of more than a dozen secret infowar games conducted during the past two years to determine...
Future warfare, in fact, may look like today's science-fiction thrillers. "One day national leaders will fight out virtual wars before they decide to go to war at all," predicts Lieut. General Jay Garner, head of the Army's Space and Strategic Defense Command. Some futurists take it a step further. Countries will have their computers fight simulated wars instead of actual battles to decide who wins. Garner is not willing to go that far. "I have a hard time visualizing that warfare will be a video game devoid of pain...
...just as well. Not only are they much cheaper to build and run than human-operated submersibles, but they can also work for long periods under the most hazardous of conditions. Moreover, remotely operated vehicles such as Kaiko put scientists on the scene, at least in a virtual sense, through video images piped in real time through the fiber-optic cable. Researchers can gather around a monitor and discuss what they are seeing without distractions. "You're focused," says Ballard. "You're not thinking, 'Is there enough oxygen in here? I've got a headache. I just hit my head...