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VIDEO BABY SITTER Ever notice how quickly children get bored, yet how intently they'll watch the same video over and over? Apparently Sony has. Its MovieTime VCR for kids repeats tapes as many times as you want, and when it's fast-forwarding or rewinding, animals bounce across the...
The biggest reason for increasing productivity, Feldstein says, is, of course, the computer and particularly the Internet. Wyss cites a little-noticed benefit: with computers, managers "can get a high school graduate to do the work a college graduate used to do." One example: a mortgage-loan applicant was once...
The hugely popular Hitchhiker novels have sold 15 million copies since 1981, and Adams has turned them into a British TV series, a set of record albums and CDs, a computer game, a Disney movie due out in 2002 and an Internet company called h2g2, which is building an online...
How far can Adams' novels be stretched? Babel Fish--a device he describes that can be inserted into the ear to give the listener instant translation of all languages--doesn't exist. But h2g2 has licensed the Babel Fish name to a service run by search engine Alta Vista, which...
Greatest change? Hmmm: The collapse of the Soviet Empire - and therefore, the end of the Cold War, the defining, nuke-menacing global reality for several generations? The computer? The mapping of the human genome? The revolution in science, communications, technology, medicine, all of which have transformed human life in the...