They couldn't be any worse. Because X-ray technology produces chips with electronic circuits half the width of those currently available, more circuits can be packed onto each chip, increasing the storage capacity of memory chips to one billion bits of data, or 60 times what today's chips can manage. If you recall previous issues of this newsletter, this is the airport with the computer that eats your luggage instead of delivering it. The Mayor has finally called it quits and has ordered a manual luggage system installed, but the airlines are objecting. Meanwhile the old airport is good a great business and it's 20 miles closer to Denver.
Mixed metaphors are always a pain in the neck and ought to be thrown out the window.
Canada's 30-member Federal Advisory Council on the Information Highway will include performers, creators and business execs to advise the Canadian government on Canadian content and culture. Nostalgia aside, some people keep them just because they're practically indestructible, attested to by one interviewee who fondly remembered trying to blow one up by placing firecrackers underneath. The phone survived unscathed. There are times I've wanted to do that to my office phone. Harvard Graphics 3.0 for Windows is shipping this week.