ABSTRACT
It is not an exaggeration to claim, as Paul McCracken Chairman of
Silicon Graphics did in a Business Week interview, that ‘the entertain-
ment industry is now the driving force for new technology, as defense
used to be.’ (bw 1994) As we enter the Twenty-First Century, it would
be more precise to claim that the differences between the way the
entertainment industry and the military-industrial complex drive the
development of new technology is that of degree rather than of kind.
