Hot Chat On-line smut growing high-tech dilemma
It's easy for computer on-line pioneer Gary Johnston to understand the dilemma now facing the Internet generation. The Northern Kentucky University music professor, one of the first to champion computer communications 20 years ago, cherishes freedom of speech.But he also wants to be a responsible parent."I have three children and I feel the same as (Hamilton County Sheriff) Simon Leis and a lot of U.S. senators when it comes to protecting children from...
Hot Chat CAPTAIN KEYBOARD One intrepid computer user checks out three of our most popular networks, chats with a best-selling writer, orders gourmet food and has some spicy conversations
It's 6:30 a.m. The rest of the city is barely awake, but already I've been shopping at the mall, compared some new cars, viewed the latest satellite weather maps and chatted with a new friend in London. I've checked with a vet about the dog's annoying chewing problem, waxed philosophical with author Tom Clancy about events in the Soviet Union and made arrangements for a gourmet meal.I've even had complete strangers offer to, um,...
Hot Chat HITTING THE INTERNET BECOMES THE FASHIONABLE THING TO DO
This on-line business is getting just too, too trendy.First Elle, the fashion magazine, turned up on America Online with interviews with makeup artist Bobbi Brown and reviews of the fall and winter collections. Then came Fashion Net, a Web page created by a Paris-based organization that helps fashion professionals implement new technologies.Fashion Net's Web address: http://www.triple.com/fashion-net/ It was followed by @fashion, a new feature of MCI's...
Virtually better than the real thing,
Modern Times
If you are having trouble with your love life, do not despair. Help may be at hand. Scientists in the United States are working to replace sexual intercourse between human beings with ``inter-facing" between humans and computers.They call the new technology ``cybersex", a broad term that can encompass anything from hot chat on a computer bulletin board to ``virtual sex" with sophisticated computer simulation programmes.With Americans increasingly...
Hot Chat Censorship debate spreading on-line
It's easy for computer on-line pioneer Gary Johnston to understand the dilemma now facing the Internet generation. The Northern Kentucky University music professor, one of the first to champion computer communications 20 years ago, cherishes freedom of speech.But he also wants to be a responsible parent."I have three children and I feel the same as (Hamilton County Sheriff) Simon Leis and a lot of U.S. senators when it comes to protecting children from...