June 1995 / Book and CD-ROM Reviews

Word Overload, Information Shortage	INSIDE THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY REVOLUTION by Nicholas Baran, Coriolis Group Books, ISBN 1-883577-10-1, $19.95 DETOUR: THE TRUTH ABOUT THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY by Michael Sullivan-Trainor, IDG Books, ISBN 1-56884-307-0, $22.99 THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY: BEYOND THE INTERNET by Peter Otte, Que, ISBN 1-56529-825-X, $19.99 REALIZING THE INFORMATION FUTURE: THE INTERNET AND BEYOND by National Research Council, National Academy Press, ISBN 0-309-05044-8, $24.95 Given last year's wave of best-selling books about the Internet, it's not surprising that publishers are cranking out even more titles concerning the information superhighway. - by Andy Reinhardt
Self-Paced Training	WORDPERFECT 6.0 FOR WINDOWS, ClassAct Multimedia, 1121 South Orem Blvd., Orem, UT 84058, (800) 235-3276 or (801) 221-9400, $149.95 per title However computer-savvy you may be, it's always a daunting task to learn the ins and outs of a major new application or computer language. - by Rich Friedman
Converting Life Into Bits	BEING DIGITAL by Nicholas Negroponte, Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN 0-679-43919-6, $23 As founder and director of MIT's Media Laboratory, Nicholas Negroponte has had a front-row seat at the conversion of reality into bit streams. - by Edmund X. DeJesus

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