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Blinded With Science (12/31/97)
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Just a few days before MacWorld Expo commences, Business Wire reports the lineup of the much-anticipated keynote addresses. As Apple Recon, in all their omniscient glory, reported weeks ago, there will be several keynotes with multiple speakers. Apple's apparently shooting for a Circus of the Stars kind of atmosphere this year.
The first keynote will be given by Steve Jobs himself, Resplendent in all his Magnificent Mercuriality. No surprise there. The second keynote will be delivered by noted graphics tool innovator (and shunner of Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines) Kai Krause of HSC MetaTools Metacreations, who will discuss the confluence of computers, the web, and television. Cool. But the third and final keynote is the real surprise. It's called "AppleMasters, Forward-Thinkers and World-Changers," and it will feature a slew of celebrities who use Macs. Who's in the lineup? Muhammad Ali, Gregory Hines (whom we saw buying a hot dog at MacWorld Expo Boston a few years back! Brush with Greatness!), Douglas Adams, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Donald Glaser, and more. Zounds!
Despite how much we like the AppleMasters program, we think we smell smoke-- and mirrors. What better way to distract the crowd from a serious lack of substantive new announcements than to throw a bunch of celebrities on stage? Not that we're complaining. Or at least, we wouldn't be, if we could be there to witness the Parade of Stars ourselves. Chalk it up to bitterness. ;-) Anyone want to get us Douglas Adams' autograph?
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 12/31/97 episode: December 31, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)
Other scenes from that episode: 315: New CEO Accepts Job (12/31/97) A Christmas miracle! It's a new year, and Michael Murdock, a 36-year-old Bay Area computer consultant with no previous CEO experience, is Apple's new Chief Executive Officer. After months of emailing and calling Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison offering to take the job, on a couple of days before Christmas he received email messages from both Larry and Steve asking him when he could start... 317: Clone Wars 2 (12/31/97) A scant few months after the end of the original Clone Wars, which concluded with Power Computing selling its Mac OS license back to Apple and then slowly fading into irrelevance, we're now seeing the beginnings of Clone Wars 2: The Cloners Strike Back....
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