Makersof20thcentury Manual

NEWS multimedia ^ "1 U Ml I Jw I I WM [ TL, | f ,w 1 , m 1 I Jfp 1 4 w m mmmmm Table of Contents The Making of Makers 2 System Requirements 4 Installation 5 Getting Started 7 Using Makers of the 20th Century 8 Control Panel 8 Help 8 Quit 8 Volume 9 Viewing Profiles 9 Moving between Chapters 10 Moving between Documents 10 Printing Articles 1 Exploring Makers of the 20th Century 12 Main Worlds Screen 12 Body World 13 Design World 15 Discovery World 16 Mind World 17 Power World 18 Senses World 21 Search 22 Random Search 23 Handy Hints 24 The Making of Makers If two unconnected people were to write down their idea of the 200 most significant people of the twentieth century, who would be sure to figure on both lists? Adolf Hitler? Marilyn Monroe? Albert Einstein? Anyone at all? We do not know, but we suspect that there would be very little overlap. Everybody has their own gallery of heroes and villains, and in any case, how do you begin to weigh the achievement of a surgeon against that of a philosopher? A mountaineer against a rock group? A poet against a president? There is, after all, no universal currency of greatness, no objective way to reduce the life’s work of extraordinary people to measurable units. This CD-ROM, Makers of the 20th Century, started life as a series in the Sunday Times Magazine of London. It consisted of a thousand short pieces, each one a life in a nutshell, by more than 400 writers. We have built on the magazine series and, using the whole armoury of multimedia, we have given an account of our busy century through the life stories of key individuals. So, as well as learning that Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, you can see him do it and read what the world thought of his incredi…