The fantasy of a technological alternative to the balance of terror is nearly as old as nuclear weaponry itself.

Publishers by tradition are notoriously apprehensive about change, and become particularly agitated about technological alternatives that challenge the tried and the true.

Other CDA critics assert that the technological alternatives will shield children every bit as well as a total ban would, and that the CDA therefore is entirely unnecessary.

My guess is that the marginal benefit of the CDA over the technological alternatives is small enough, and the burden that the law creates is large enough, that the CDA will be overturned.

There were economic incentives, he said, to develop advanced technological alternatives to land disposal of chemical wastes, including avoidance of financial liability.

But for the last 10 years, while other companies have been struggling to raise money to pay musicians, Operaworks has been bypassing the cost with a controversial technological alternative, the "virtual orchestra," as the company's publicity materials call it: in effect, a computer-realized electronic substitute.

ALTHOUGH many companies are looking to geographic diversification to safeguard their operations, at least one developer said there is a technological alternative in Manhattan and said he is prepared to move ahead with it.

The software, which detects and analyzes voice and speech signals, offers a technological alternative to an often intuitive process.

Moreover, interpretation is usually conditioned by the technological alternatives at hand.

Future, a game distributed by Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation on the occasion of its twentieth anniversary, introduces players to various technological and social alternatives of the future, and forces them to choose among them.