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Microcap & Penny Stocks : IATV - ACTV Interactive Television

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To: StaggerLee who wrote (4080)1/21/1999 7:58:00 AM
From: whitephosphorus   of 4748
 
George Gilders Vision:

He wrote:
Why should all this bandwidth arouse the competitive fire of Andy
Grove? The new explosions of bandwidth enable interactive
multimedia and video, riding on radio frequencies, into every
household--through the air from satellites and terrestrial wireless
systems, through fiberoptic threads and cable TV and even
phone-company coax.

If the personal computer cannot handle these streams, John
Malone's set-top boxes, Sega or Nintendo game machines will. A communications
technology that can manage multimedia in full flood can also in time
relegate one of Grove's CPUs to service as a minor peripheral.

WHY might this be important? Reading Message 7389728
about ACTV's patents, I wonder if we might become the operating system in all PCs (or TVs) in the coming age of infinite bandwidth.

Now THAT's a rush.

What do you all think?
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