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...Tennessee Governor has made a name for himself with a bumper-sticker-friendly attack on Congress: CUT THEIR PAY AND SEND THEM HOME. For the past six months he has also been the host of a monthly TV program on Republican issues relayed around the country by a satellite hookup. It may be no threat to Seinfeld, but it's the kind of show that is making him a name to party insiders...
What makes Dante II truly revolutionary, however, is its four computers and their controlling software. Although the robot was connected by cable to a power generator and transmitter at the crater rim, which let the scientists direct it via a satellite hookup to the control room, Dante II can operate independently at times and did for nearly half the mission, negotiating its own path through the boulders...
...what everybody had assumed was impossible: squeeze a video signal through a telephone wire. The technology, known as asymmetric digital subscriber line, has some drawbacks. It cannot handle live transmissions, and the picture it produces is not as clear as that provided by a well-tuned cable hookup - never mind the high-definition TV signals expected to come on line before the end of the decade. Bellcore researchers say they have already improved the quality of the picture and that with further compression they may be able to accommodate several channels of live video...
Ross Perot proposed an instantaneous participatory television democracy -- a national electronic town meeting in which Americans could directly register their opinions on issues. Television has already swallowed the political parties, and Perot's hookup would override the Constitution's framework of representative democracy and deliberation...
Unfortunately, students sometimes mistake a hookup for the beginnings of relationship, says Fishman. "There are very frequent misunderstandings. Someone's always looking for the long term thing from the hookup...