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...haven't yet done away with the Imperial system?" asks an outspoken visitor to the history page. "In Japan, the press has had a monopoly over information," says Tomofumi Akiyama, a lawyer who specializes in multimedia law. "The Internet has opened the door for everyone to gather and transmit information...
...sure, current technologies that transmit images and voice fall far short of anything remotely realistic. At present, teleconferencing generally involves jerky video and canned sound. There is no real eye contact. The center hopes to project a 3-D avatar so real that you'll feel as if Bob is really sitting next you and Tina is across the table, though in reality they might be a continent or two away. "You can be immersed anywhere in the world and feel like a participant," says Max Nikias, the center's director. Within a decade or so, he predicts...
...must take issue with James Poniewozik's apologia for reality-TV programs and his view that they teach morality lessons [TELEVISION, April 23]. Programs like Big Brother and Survivor are not group therapy. Nor do they transmit any morals. They are an exhibition of what happens when contestants allow themselves to be showcased in an artificial environment in which they are likely to form emotional attachments while being required to inflict hurt and humiliation on one another. Rather than ask what message these shows send to their viewers, one should consider what irreparable damage they will, over time, cause...
...Harvard administrators that they would pay for a living wage through a tuition increase. Polls that contain a political message (e.g., a living wage might cost you more) have been termed “push polls” and their use in last fall’s campaigns to transmit falsehoods about candidates has been decried. Legitimate surveys avoid biased and vague items like the plague. Such questions not only produce meaningless results, they bias the answers to the questions that follow them by shaping the meaning respondents attach to them. And in e-mail surveys, respondents...
...attempt to control child pornography in cyberspace, the Canadian government proposed new laws that would make it illegal to access child pornography on the Internet. The Criminal Law Amendment Act would also make it illegal to post such material on a website or transmit it by e-mail. People convicted of transmitting child pornography could face 10-year jail sentences while those caught intentionally accessing porn sites could receive five-year sentences...