Fifty years ago the road to pop super-stardom started with a practice sessio in a pub, soon it will happen in a studio on the internet and we could all be doing it.
Rather than coming from towns like Liverpool or London according to some of the music industry’s top gurus the Beatles and Rolling Stones of the future will be drawn via the internet from all corners of the world and could even use their mobile phones as mixing desks.
JAPANESE electronics giant Sharp is to unveil the world's first
commercial use of 3D technology on a computer screen - a development
that could bode well for Britain.
MICROSOFT is set to launch a new breed of PCs that will turn desktop
computers into televisions. Hailed as the next stage in the evolution
of the PC, the computers will take data simultaneously from the
internet and from satellite and terrestrial TV broadcasts.
The UN is predicting a massive take-up in fuel cell technology over the next 15 years.
According to speakers at an international conference on fuel cells held
this November at the United Nations University Institute for New
Technologies, China India and Brazil have already embarked on active
programmes to develop hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
China, already acutely conscious of the economic contraints imposed on
it by its lack of oil reserves is carrying out fuel cell vehicles and
refuelling station demonstrations in Shanghai and Beijing.
Bought and published by Scotland on Sunday, February 13, 2000
The computer is dead, long live the computer Two months into the 21st
century and the computer company Samsung has announced that it has
started work on the ultimate manifestation of the consumer society, the
disposable PC.
Fifty years ago the road to pop super-stardom started with a practice sessio in a pub, soon it will happen in a studio on the internet and we could all be doing it.