Date: Mon, 2 May 94 14:40:26 PDT
From: RISKS Forum <risks@csl.sri.com>
Subject: RISKS DIGEST 16.01

RISKS-LIST: RISKS-FORUM Digest  Monday 2 May 1994  Volume 15 : Issue 01

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Date: Sun, 1 May 1994 13:05:12 -0700
From: Phil Agre <pagre@ucsd.edu>
Subject: Subjectively, it's eerie

,In the 5/1/94 Sunday New York Times, the Business section includes one of
those nice experiential articles about new technology, in this case a Ford
with DSP circuitry in it that makes the inside of the car sound like a
cathedral (concert hall, night club, opera house, stadium, etc).  The full
reference is:

  Hans Fantel, A recital hall on wheels, New York Times, 1 May 1994,
  Business section page 7.

Here is a brief quotation:

  "Subjectively it's eerie.  Sitting inside this hologram, I felt bathed
   in music, virtually forgetting where I was.  Engine and traffic noises
   faded from awareness.  The car somehow seemed like a space capsule.
   I was gliding along, swathed in Puccini, while outside the harried
   scenes of Manhattan rolled by like a silent movie."

On the same page is another article about plans by the US government and
Rockwell International for "intelligent vehicle highway systems".

Phil Agre, UCSD

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