2001 Part5
SERIES PRODUCERS: NINA ZACUTO and ALAN KAUL
THIS SEGMENT: NINA ZACUTO
EDITOR: STEPHANIE LONGMIRE
ANCHOR: BRIAN WILLIAMS
NAVIGATING THE INFORMATION
SUPERHIGHWAY. IT WON'T BE EASY: ALL
THAT NEW TELECOMMUNICATIONS
TECHNOLOGY WON'T AMOUNT TO MUCH
UNLESS PEOPLE CAN REALLY PUT IT TO
-USE- TO IMPROVE THEIR LIVES. WELL,
MANY HIGH-TECH PIONEERS ARE HARD AT
WORK DOING JUST THAT. NBC'S GEORGE
LEWIS REPORTS, IN OUR FINAL
INSTALLMENT OF "ALMOST 2001."
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NARRATION: GEORGE LEWIS
JIM TERHORST CHOPPING WOOD (NATSOT--wood splitting sounds)
(NARR) JYM TERHORST
LIVES IN BOULDER, COLORADO. BUT
HE'S NOT IN THE LUMBER BUSINESS.
TERHORST WORKING HE'S A COMPUTER PROGRAMMER FOR A
HIGH-TECH CALIFORNIA COMPANY,
SILICON GRAPHICS...AND HE DOES HIS
JOB FROM HIS HOUSE.
BOSS LOOKS AT WORK HIS BOSS REVIEWS THE WORK 1200
MILES AWAY AT COMPANY HEADQUARTERS.
SETUP JIM JIM SAYS TELECOMMUTING ENHANCES HIS
QUALITY OF LIFE AND HIS
PRODUCTIVITY.
JIM TERHORST SPEAKS (SOT) "I feel a lot better up
here. I feel comfortable, I'm in my
setting. I know I spend more hours
at my tube then I did when I was
driving.
SILICON VALLEY RUSH HOUR (NARR) USING THE INFORMATION
SUPERHIGHWAY INSTEAD OF THE
INTERSTATE IS SOMETHING THEY'RE
TALKING ABOUT A LOT IN SILICON
VALLEY THESE DAYS.
ED MCCRACKEN (SOT) "Sometime in the next five
SILICON GRAPHICS INC. years, we really wanna be able to
provide an environment that allows
people to work wherever they want
to work."
TELECONFERENCING STATIONS (NARR) AND MAYBE MAKE SOME MONEY
FOR THE COMPANY. SILICON GRAPHICS
IS PUSHING THIS PRODUCT...CALLED
"IN PERSON"
(NAT SOT-- Hello Jeff. Hello, how
are you?)
...A 75 HUNDRED DOLLAR WORKSTATION
WHICH PERMITS PEOPLE SEPARATED BY
HUNDREDS OF MILES TO COLLABORATE ON
PROJECTS.
(NATSOT--"I can change colors in
the middle of pointing and use a
red arrow.)
MEETING IN S.G.I. CONF. ROOM (NARR) SILICON GRAPHICS IS ONE OF
A NUMBER OF AREA COMPANIES JOINING
LOCAL GOVERNMENTS AND EDUCATORS IN
A PROJECT CALLED "SMART VALLEY."
THEY'RE BRAINSTORMING A WHOLE LOT
OF IDEAS... SUCH AS
TELECOMMUTING...TO MAKE LIFE BETTER
AND PUT THE REGION'S BUSINESSES IN
THE VANGUARD OF THE INFORMATION
REVOLUTION.
SETUP HARRY SAAL HARRY SAAL, WHO HEADS SMART VALLEY,
SAYS SOME PROJECTS COULD BE HITS
WHILE OTHERS COULD FLOP BIG TIME.
HARRY SAAL, PRESIDENT/CEO (SOT) "You just don't know ahead
of SMART VALLEY INC. time which are gonna be the great
successes, the billion dollar
industries, and which ones two
years from now, three years from
now, we'll look at and say, "gee,
that was a great idea, but the fish
didn't bite."
WALLY AT SCREEN (NARR) WALLY DEAN, A CITY
COUNCILMAN IN CUPERTINO, IS HOPING
ONE OF THE SUCCESSES WILL BE "CITY
NET", A COMPUTER BULLETIN BOARD
WHERE PEOPLE CAN LOOK UP
INFORMATION ABOUT SCHOOLS...
SCHOOL ICON ON SCREEN (NATSOT: computer sound efx, kids play)
CITY COUNCIL ICON (NARR) OR CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS.
(NATSOT: "meeting come to
order...")
PERMIT ON SCREEN (NARR) WANT A DOG LICENSE FORM OR
A BUILDING PERMIT APPLICATION? POP
IT UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN AND
PRINT IT OUT AT HOME. NO TRIPS TO
CITY HALL... NO STANDING IN LINE.
WALLY SPEAKS (SOT) "It now gives you an
electronic permit."
SCHOOL MEETING (NARR) ANOTHER SMART VALLEY
PROJECT IS A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN
THE PHONE COMPANY AND EDUCATORS TO
INSTALL HIGH-CAPACITY COMPUTER
LINKS IN EIGHT SCHOOLS AT NO CHARGE
FOR THE FIRST TWO YEARS.
(NAT SOT: You can link three lines
in one box.)
LEWIS STANDUP BRIDGE (SOT) "One issue being addressed
HILLSBOROUGH, CA here is how to train today's kids
SV-PAL PROJECT to navigate the information
superhighway. Eighth graders today
will wind up in the college
graduating class of 2001. And
electronic information will be a
big factor in their lives."
CU SCREEN "POLAND" (NAT SOT) "Polish recipies...we need
these."
KIDS ON COMPUTERS THESE KIDS ARE LINKED UP TO POLAND.
THE PARTNERSHIP WILL HELP MORE
STUDENTS CONNECT TO THE GLOBAL
INTERNET AND ELECTRONICALLY BROWSE
THROUGH REAMS OF INFORMATION FROM
ALL OVER THE WORLD.
TRAINING CLASS FOR SV-PAL (NARR) ANOTHER AIM OF THE SMART
VALLEY PROJECT IS TO PERMIT
EVERYONE, YOUNG AND OLD, RICH AND
POOR, TO BE LINKED, THROUGH
COMPUTER NETWORKS.
MAN LOGS IN FOR FIRST TIME (NATSOT) "I've got an extended
AND FINDS A LIST OF MAIL family, finally.
(NARR) IT'S ALMOST 2001. AND A
LOT OF PEOPLE ARE TAKING THEIR
FIRST TEST DRIVES ON A NEW KIND OF
HIGHWAY. GEORGE LEWIS, NBC NEWS, IN
CALIFORNIA'S SILICON VALLEY.
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