Tue, Sep 29, 1998
Schools are rapidly installing computers in classrooms. But there are issues with tech-enabled public education Americans should realize, reports ABC Nightline technology correspondent Gina Smith. US President Bill Clinton, Rep. Newt Gingrich, Stanford Prof. Larry Cuban and several middle school and high school teachers weigh in. US Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology director Linda Roberts and educational psychologist Jane Healy discuss the thornier issues of computers in schools with Ted Koppel in a live segment after the report.
Mon, Jan 12, 1998
ABC News correspondent Gina Smith looks into the activities of hate groups online. In the taped piece, she interviews Don Black, who owns the hate site Stormfront, as well as Simon Wiesenthal Center Associate Dean Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Earthlink chairman Sky Dayton, and John Tache of the United Nations Committee to End Racial Discrimination. In the live wrap, Nightline host Ted Koppel talks to Black and first amendment attorney Floyd Abrams.
Mon, Oct 19, 1998
ABC News correspondent Gina Smith reports on the Year 2000 bug (Y2K bug), a computer glitch that some worry will lead to widespread computer failure, power shortages and other problems. Smith talks to self-described "Y2K survivalists" Scott, Barbara and David Olmstead about why they're getting ready to flee come New Year's Eve 1999. She also talks to Cathy Moyer and Paloma O'Riley of the Cassandra Project, IT specialist Joel Ackerman, YTK consultants Rick Cowles and Doug Carmichael, author Jim Lord and local government official Steve Davis. Forrest Sawyer does the live wrap-up.