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...road to hackerdom starts modestly enough. All anyone really needs for editing videotape is a camcorder and a VCR to copy selected segments from one tape onto another. Unfortunately, most camcorders and VCRs intersperse their cuts with irritating patches of electronic noise and make duplicates that look as if they've been smeared with a video paintbrush. So the would-be video artist soon finds himself trading in his primitive equipment for improved models (costing up to $1,200) with "flying erase heads," which allow smooth splicing, and one of the new formats (Hi8 or S-VHS) that...
...they have come in so short a time -- and how discontented they are about it. A year ago, East Germany was choking on soft-coal fumes and immobilized by the clutter of failure." Now, he notes, the cities are cleaner, people are driving Volkswagens and buying VCRs, and yet "nobody is happy. Physical shabbiness has been replaced by a palpable psychic gloom." In western Germany, meanwhile, Jackson finds "crabbiness and penny pinching. It is as if achieving their dream of unity and unprecedented security were not worth the price of a third car or second annual vacation...
Satellite dishes, VCRs and other technology help make it possible for the men and women in the gulf to receive this outpouring of entertainment. More than 85% of U.S. soldiers stationed in the region have access to radios, compared with just 50% during the Vietnam War. Some 3,000 television sets are also available to the troops, and more are on the way. Five major companies, % including ARCO and AT&T, each donated $500,000 to a USO fund that will spend some of the money to build mobile entertainment centers for the troops. Dubbed the USOasis, these vehicles contain...
Education warranties work much like those for VCRs and refrigerators. If an employer finds that a recent graduate is unable to read, write or calculate proficiently, the school system will offer free remedial instruction, usually in adult- or evening-education classes. Most credentials, which vary from Prince George's wallet-size Guaranteed Employability Certificate to Plymouth- Carver's diploma-size guarantee, apply only to locally employed students. But at least one district -- Montrose County, Colo. -- plans eventually to vouch for its graduates statewide...
...America. A month ago, conventional wisdom had the U.S. being overtaken as a great power by Japan. Perhaps. But is making a superior Walkman a better index of technological sophistication than making laser bombs that enter hangars through the front door? Is a nation's ability to make VCRs a better index of power than the ability to defeat aggression...