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Technology Stocks : Using Internet For Voice Communications
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To: Jeff Woodard who wrote (4)10/3/1995 10:22:00 PM
From: olduser   of 201
 
Jeff says, "look to the future" ......

"Let's look toward the
future, not the past. If it is useful, and
people want it, it will likely happen."

I say that the future is *not* a disembodied
voice over the net. The future is a mix of
asynchonous "multimedia" communication
that has more to do with data transmission
on demand than one-to-one, phone-type
"conversations".

Sure, we may be passing audio and video packets
over the net, but I don't believe that the packets
will be sent "realtime" in a continuous flow so
that they can only be "consumed" once and
then they are gone forever (or until they are
requested again). The audio and video will be
*files* not "conversations". More like snapshots
in a family album or video tapes than realtime
"chats".

P.S. Thanks for the agreement on ISDN as a
"dead end".

Mike Byrnes mbyrnes@tpoint.net
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