Digital dilemma
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The switch to digital television (DTV) is expected to create the biggest convergence between television and the personla computer. The merger, however, is hindered by the debate over transmission standards. DTV would enable viewers to get television broadcast signals as well as digital broadcasts that include Web transmissions.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1998
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Where the money is
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The computer industry hinges its near-term planning on the popularity of intranets, which will be the concept to follow in its product development activities. Software developers are already cashing in on the trend by developing software exclusively for intranets, the so-called groupwares.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1997
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Among the papers in Kaczynski's cabin
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A scientist whose name Kaczynski had recorded on a list kept at his Montana cabin hopes that Kaczynski does not come to represent scientists in the popular imagination. She would rather people think of Paul Ehrlich or Marie Curie.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1996
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