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Sales of Japanese cars equipped with cd-rom and satellite navigation systems are already surging--from 306,000 in 1994 to a projected 750,000 this year. Electronics and software account for 20% of the sticker price of today's new models, up from 5% less than 30 years ago. By 2005, a government advisory panel predicted this spring, Japan's market for information equipment in automobiles will be worth $6.2 billion annually...
...miracles of archival scholarship and entrepreneurial greed, you can still hear the Beatles, see the Rolling Stones, in their prime. The third and final Beatles Anthology double album has unpolished gems from the band's last two years together. The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, on video and CD, is a long-lost 1968 concert that Mick Jagger & Co. shared with the Who, Jethro Tull, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull and--guess who--John Lennon and his bride Yoko Ono. The Fab Four and Their Satanic Majesties--together again for the first time...
...romp and a requiem. The Stones' Brian Jones would die the next summer, the Who's Keith Moon and Lennon a decade or so later. But on tape and CD, the stars are alive. So are the craft, magic and zip of '60s rock...
...such a project may seem a noble but obsolete gesture, like the last cavalry charge of World War I--print doing what it does best against overwhelming odds. But it's nothing of the kind. For several reasons, a work like this cannot be done online or on a CD-ROM at present. Analytical knowledge of this order only runs through the pages of books...
Will the dictionary turn into a CD-ROM or arrive on the Internet? Little chance at present. Current search engines are not sophisticated enough to work properly with so vast a project on the Internet. And the big software companies with a foot in encyclopedic publishing are not currently interested in risky and expensive ventures on the scale of this project. For instance, Microsoft's CD-ROM on the collection of Britain's National Gallery is a once-over-lightly affair, with some useful student-level cross-references but no real scholarly depth; the same company's Encarta encyclopedia...