Journalism has tended to redefine itself in time of war. Radio covered World War II with unprecedented immediacy; television did the same in Vietnam a generation later. Now, in a less dramatic but still significant way, computer technology is getting into the act, and I'm proud to say that TIME is heavily involved. This week we, together with our corporate cousins at Warner New Media in Los Angeles, are releasing a history of the Persian Gulf war that combines text, images and audio accounts of the conflict -- on a tiny 5-in. disc.
The technology is called CD-ROM, for compact-disc read-only...
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