I was handicapped from the start. Familiar jolts of pain shot through my cramped hands as they remembered years spent pecking away at keyboards. Mia, at age 14, was the perfect height for the machine. Though she couldn’t type her own name too quickly, being a Nintendo expert she was accustomed to the video-game style of the exhibit.
The hall of fame serves mainly as a showcase for those leaders of the business world canonized each year by Fortune magazine’s “Hall of Fame” issue. They’re dead or retired businesspeople singled out because “when instinct stirs deep inside and leads in unexpected directions, they have the vision and courage to follow.” The exhibit is sponsored by large corporate foundations and by Junior Achievement, an organization that attempts to interest youngsters in business.
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In a clip on Charles F. Kettering’s developments in the field of “safe refrigerants,” no mention is made of the environmental repercussions of the technology that spawned ozone-destroying CFCs. Kettering’s discoveries, booms the narrator, “continue to add to the quality of the modern way of life.”
But while I was distracted by a video on orange juice production, Mia spied them repeating the game. Marathoning through the questions, they captured the high scores because they already knew the answers. Apparently there’s no watchdog to prevent such cheating.
With Bank of America as my muse, I selected “product line” as my response. A red bar appeared over my choice: negative.
Question: “The price of a product greatly affects sales. How do you set the price of a product?”
