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...knowledge, my hard drive refused to grow with me. It wasn't its fault. Back in 1989 when I bought the thing, 20 MB was considered an immense amount of space. And to its credit, it was remarkably malleable. I used Pagemaker on it for a number of medium-size projects and even managed to squeeze Excel on as well during one heady fall when I thought I would finally get my finances organized...
Suddenly a new medium -- and a new market opportunity -- has opened up in the place where Hollywood, Silicon Valley and the information highway intersect. Games are part of a rapidly evolving world of interactive amusements so new that nobody knows what to call them: Multimedia? Interactive motion pictures? The New Hollywood? And like the proverbial blind men feeling their way around the elephant, everybody involved in it has a different idea of what this lucrative beast is, depending on what part of it touches them. Hollywood executives tend to see the emerging market as a way to distribute movies...
...comes in. The idea is that nobody knows better than moviemakers how to put stories on a screen and bring them to life. "My own belief," says Voyeur's Zabriskie, "is that the sooner the better actors and the better directors get involved, the sooner this will be a medium that everybody will want to get into...
...records for making video-game hits -- are as rare as Spielbergs and Scorseses are in Hollywood. They have to know how to design puzzles that are hard but not too hard. They have to pace the dangers and rewards and have an intuitive feel for the nature of the medium. "Hollywood knows nothing about interactivity," says Brian Moriarty, who designed some of the best-selling Zork games and is working on Spielberg's The Dig. "If they are looking for a quick killing, they are in for a disappointment. There are no quick killings here...
...recent wave of Katyusha rocket attacks on northern Israel as a preview of the type of activity (this time in range of major cities) that Palestinians would undertake given any autonomy on the West Bank and Gaza. But the short-range Katyushas of today will very soon be medium range SCUDS from North Korea. In the face of advancing technology, a country whose survival depends on "strategic depth" will find itself in an awful bind, needing more and more depth to offer the same measure of protection...