Headlines Newspapers Could Be Publishing This Year
Even with the relentless rise of on-line services, Internet’s World Wide Web and newsgroups, as well as the digital multimedia “convergence,” the well-crafted headline remains the clearest indicator of the media Zeitgeist. Torn from the pages of tomorrow, here are a few of the more innovative headlines that newspapers--both paper and electronic--could be publishing this year:
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Patent Office Declares Moratorium
on Software Patents
Agency to ‘Fundamentally Re-Evaluate’
Program Protection
PTO Nullifies 5 More Software Patents
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Murdoch and Baby Bell Bid
for Satellite Broadcaster
DirecTV Unit of
Hughes in Negotiations
Bold Alliance to Build New National Telecommunications Network to Bypass Terrestrial Broadcasters and Phone Links
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Bill Gates to Endow $5-Billion
Medical Foundation
Software Entrepreneur Promises ‘Bold Breakthroughs in Biotechnology’ From Nation’s Third-Largest Philanthropy
Particular Interest in Immortality Research
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Artificial Life Activists
Break into Los Alamos
Supercomputer Installation
PETVA Claims to ‘Liberate’ Computer Software With Lifelike Qualities
‘People for the Ethical Treatment of Virtual Animals’
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Labor Department Suppresses
Productivity Study
Participatory Workplaces No More Productive Than Traditional Management, Quashed Survey Asserts
‘Serious Methodological Flaws,’ Secretary Insists
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Europeans Have No More Esprit
EU Pulls Plug on Funding for Programs to Boost Continent’s Computer Competitiveness
France Announces Immediate
Surtax on U.S. Software
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‘Violent Crime’ Gene Identified
Statistical Genomic Analysis of White-Collar Criminals vs. Violent Felons Establishes Strong Link, NIMH Says
Civil Libertarians Fear Implications
Suit to Bring Computers to Poor Schools
Multimillion-Dollar California Class Action to Mandate Personal Computer Parity Between Wealthy and Poor School Districts
‘Children without classroom computers today are like children without textbooks in the 1950s,’ advocates maintain
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No More Networks!
California College Declares ‘Internet-Free Zone’
‘We need to spend more time with the people here,’ explains student leader
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‘For Whom the Bells Toll’
Software Bug Causes Nation’s Phones to Ring Randomly
No Link to Los Alamos Event, Investigators Insist
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Microsoft Announces Windows Delay
Software Giant Maintains Operating System Will Ship Before Year’s End
Windows 9?
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Michael Schrage is a writer, consultant and research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He writes this column independently for The Times. He can be reached at schrage@latimes.com by electronic mail via the Internet.
