... incredible growth reflects our dependency on computers. The growth is also one measure of the increasing demand for information processing and retrieval, which can be added to the mi11ions of TV, sets which are now a major part of current interactive information networks. Another way to estimate the growth of the information society is to examine how many information services we now ... a New York Times story on home video recorders that a woman in Miami has taped a collection of old Shirley Temple movies. She plays them back when she is depressed. Previously conventional TV networks co...

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... Soviet Union engaged in over North Korea. The ending of Cold War bipolarity has meant the demise of not only the vaunted China card in the collapsed strategic triangle (North Korea-China -Soviet Union) but also the Pyongyang card in the old Sino-Soviet rivalry." The rapprochement between China and South Korea in 1992, as a means to establish regional peace, hinted a possible ... ...

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... artists wear The Gap. Finally, the ideas and policies of American media have strong influence on Japanese media. A wide variety of variety shows are the staple of prime-time Japanese TV. The public has a passion for gourmet quiz shows offering all sorts of vicarious eating pleasures and has also taken to the Japanese version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, although ... travel companies, asking them to design a tour around the show(Webb B.4). While fans may differ as to their favorite shows and their reasons for liking them, there's no doubt foreign TV series are going down a storm in ...

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... life size models also in clay or fiberglass. Automotive engineers then develop each part of the car, and mock-up builders create those indigenous parts of the new car. Test drivers check over the entire system, analyzing how it runs, and then gives suggestions on improving the vehicle. Automotive engineers test all the new, specialized parts of the car, and after ... ...

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... terms of culture, it can be said that the United States has a worldwide influence. The appealing side of the United States that is found through the spread of popular films, TV shows, sports and music is something that entices foreigners to emigrate from their homes to the more desirable land of opportunities. It uses captivating mindsets such as "The American ... ...

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... weekends and escape to quite places like a beach. The Americans complain about declines in their steel industries but few Americans believe that it is a problem to import CD players and TV's. The United States government does not have any form of a plan to create a domestic CD player or anything of the sort. This is where the Japanese are different from the ... ...

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... goods during a particular period. For instance, take the slogans of the three sacred treasures (television, washing machine and refrigerator) of the early 60's and the three C's (car, cooler and colour TV) of the late 60's. In addition to these measures we can include a work force made docile by enterprise unionism (one union for each company), extensive subcontracting, lifetime employment and the ... ...

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... of bandwidth is what is making two-way communication, or interactivity, possible. Neither digitization nor fibre optics is new. But it was only this year that America's two biggest cable-TV owners, TCI and Time Warner , said they would spend $2 billion and $5 billion respectively to deploy both technologies in their systems, which together serve a third of America's 60m cable homes. Soon ... ...

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