Interactive Attractions

Other noteworthy titles are The Sporting News 1993 Pro Football Cuticle (Comp-ton's for PC CD-ROM, $39.95), which provides stats on every player and team in the NFL, and Sports Illustrated's 1994 Multimedia Sports Almanac (StarPress for PC and Mac CD-ROM, $39.95), which contains video highlights of 1993, stats and records for all sports, and the full text of every issue of SI published from November '92 to October '93.

Signs that multimedia is pervading everyday life are everywhere. In March the New York Times Book Review included within its august pages a review of a multimedia art title. And last month the staunchly mainstream Book-of-the-Month Club included a multimedia poetry CD among its May selections.

So choose your vehicle and hop on the infobahn. It's time to get with the program. Even if the clock on your VCR is still blinking 12:00.