Wasn't the speech at JUSTRI suppose to be visionary in nature instead of self-advertising? These seem to be the only visionary statements that Falk mentioned and anybody who reads the news and has any common sense would know this:
"I am sure you have seen recent articles about the Internet music industry, and you've heard the interesting statistic that, over this past summer, the acronym "MP3" overtook the word "sex" as the most commonly searched-for word on the
Internet. This is indeed indicative of a revolution, which has only just begun. According to research by EE Times magazine and Forrester Research, the digital music player market will grow from approximately 1.2 million units in 1999 to a total of over 32 million units sold by 2003. Also
according to Forrester Research, digital downloading will add $1.1 billion to the U.S. music industry by 2003."
"Based on industry information we expect the five major record labels to make desirable content available in several secure formats such as ePAC, AAC, Sony's A-Track, Qdesign's Music Playback and Microsoft's Windows Media Player."
"We firmly believe that over the next two years, Internet music players that invisibly support multiple formats will
be the product of choice by digital music consumers."
"future computers will be able to translate hidden meaning by deciphering changes in intonation that signal anger, sarcasm, joy, fear, or excitement... Our future interface
with computers will be talking and listening, often utilizing portable devices."
"One of the biggest applications for portable devices will be field information-gathering... use speech-enabled portable devices to collect information... Via wireless systems, voice data will be transmitted to a home office and translated by special software programs into text."
"... Anything less than instant gratification of their information and entertainment needs is unacceptable to them. New generations of portable devices and computers
will be expected to meet these demands."
"According to Semico Research, sales of Flash memory devices will double from $4 billion this year to $8.5 billion in less than two years."
According to International Data Group, more than 55 million non-PC devices will be connected to the Internet by 2002; a year later, non-PC Internet connections are expected to outnumber those from PCs. As increased bandwidth becomes available, standards are established, and pricing remains
competitive, our industry will explode as numerous convergent technologies become available to every consumer in the palms of their hands. We envision a future of full featured easy to use portable devices that incorporate
large displays where the interface between the user and the device is speech rather than hard to use miniature keyboards or complicated hand writing recognition software. These devices will talk and listen and feature wireless speech communication, speech-to-text/text-to-speech
conversion, downloadable music files, downloadable full-motion-video files, and other convergent applications."
Actually, it's not bad at all. I would have preferred that the EDIG advertisement be inserted right after each vision to better help the listener connect EDIG to that future vision. Thus, constantly re-enforcing the reasons they should invest some million$ in EDIG. However, Falk would have had to write a little more cleverly so that the advertising wouldn't seem so obvious.
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