Looking Back
30, 20, and 10 Years Ago in OPN
Video workstations; spectroscopic OCT; Raman fiber laser
“We have had video available to workstations for 10 years through the agency of the optical videodisk, but only now, with the advent of digital compression systems and convenient small-sized optical storage media, is it ready to become prevalent ... Casually watching the evening news while editing the corporate annual report may be fun, but that capability alone is probably not sufficient to build a television set into the desktop of anyone but a broadcaster.”
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