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To: Rande Is who wrote (13581)	10/18/1999 1:18:00 PM
From: Jon Stept	Read Replies (1) of 57584

Rande- re:HEAR news... Hi Rande, I downloaded the HEAR client and test drove it... wow! Hearing somebody actually say my handle was quite a shock! The quality was horrible, but it was different actually hearing somebody's voice. I am thinking of a similar paradigm shift, and Graphical Interfaces replacing text based interfaces comes to mind... GUIs have replaced text based systems, except in certain instances, like chat. And, I think it is with good reason. I am not convinced this is going to be revolutionary in the obvious...that is it won't replace text-chat... too much is lost. Real time voice chat trades off verbal quantity, simultaneousness and expiration for non-verbal information. One way it might be really great- free phone calls, although it would not be two way... only one person could speak at a time. Because of this possibility, Hear might become a great all purpose chat site... find someone in a room you want to talk with one-on-one, create a room and talk. It will throw phone sex into the stratosphere. Small time sex-industry operators will definitely start their own businesses out of this, no?... the infrastructure is all there for nothing. What are your thoughts? Just my opinion. Jon :)

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