Ozarks At Large

In her latest book Cached: Decoding the Internet in Global Popular Culture, Stephanie Schulte says that examples of pop culture like the movie War Games played prominently into how the world perceived the Internet in its earliest days.

Here is a guide to clips used in our Sunday montage salute to computers:

1. The band Kraftwerk sings "Computer Love."
2. A seemingly innocent beginning to a complicated relationship in the movie War Games.
3. A computer discussion from The Computer Who Wore Tennis Shoes, released in 1969.
4. Styx and that very odd song, "Mr. Roboto."
5. A not-so-innocent continuation of a complicated relationship in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
6. A computer foul up in 1957’s Desk Set starring Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn.
7. "You’ve Got Mail!"
8. A very terse answer that reflects a complicated relationship in the movie The Social Network.
9. An ominous warning about a complicated relationship in the original, 1982 version of Tron.
10. The Jetsons theme.

Charles Banks Wilson, an American artist, was laid to rest on Tuesday in his hometown of Miami, Oklahoma. He was born and passed in Arkansas. Wilson is best known for his works of the American Indian. Wilson's works are housed in some of the most renowned museums and art galleries in the world, including New York's Metropolitan Museum, Washington's Library of Congress, the Corcoran Gallery, the Oklahoma State Capitol where four 13 feet tall and 27 feet wide murals line the rotunda, and the Gilcrease Museum, which owns more than 300 pieces of the artist's work.

Researchers at the University of Arkansas recently completed a study, concluding that the use of sequential pricing based on real-time knowledge of shopper preferences could increase retailer profits. Ozarks at Larges Christina Thomas spoke with Cary Deck and John Aloysius of the Walton College of Business.