From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!duke!unc!wm
Newsgroups: net.general
Title: re: World's Fair
Article-I.D.: unc.3519
Posted: Sun Jun 6 23:53:44 1982
Received: Mon Jun  7 01:26:07 1982


I just got back a half hour ago.  I'm a sucker for a world's fair, and
since Knoxville is only a 7 hour drive from here, I felt sort of
obligated.  It wasn't great, but it had its high points.  Top among
them is the China exhibit.  Very nice.  I didn't find the fair any more
overpriced than anything else these days.  It was sort of crowded, but
there were always things to do without lines.  The main problem with it
is that there is only so much you can say about energy at a world's
fair.  The best exhibits were the ones that ignored the theme of the
fair.  It's funny, but the kind of things that you would think that
they would do about energy that would be interesting, they didn't do.
One thing that I found interesting from a Computer Science standpoint
was in the USA pavilion.  They had color tv's hooked up with
touchscreens to apple computers, along with an AED 512 graphics
generator, and two or three video disk players.  There were about 6 of
these setups in all.  They had all the electronics set up behind a
glass wall.  The whole thing was so you could interact with the TV and
(you guessed it) ask it questions about ENERGY.