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To: Prognosticator who wrote (18819)	8/23/1999 9:12:00 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Computing's Next Wave: Thinking Toasters The future of consumer technology lies in embedding microchips in everything from home appliances to books and linking them all in a network. That's the theory, anyway. By ASHLEY DUNN, Times Staff Writer ... For computer scientists, breaking the once monolithic desktop PC into a million pieces and scattering them throughout everyday life represents the third wave of computing, following the eras of mainframes and desktop machines. Called pervasive or ubiquitous computing, the movement promises a day when computing and networking with other devices will be constant, automatic and virtually invisible to the user. While there are now billions of microprocessors strewn throughout the world in smart office buildings and automated factories, cars and appliances, pervasive computing will push those devices into the home and evolve them into more personal and interactive devices that automatically tune to your needs and do your bidding. That's the theory, anyway. ... latimes.com Interleaf 6.0 is great. Makes pasting color Finite Element plots from PATRAN into your document a breeze. Not to mention CATIA quick plots. Word barfs on big files just like a large Access database becomes corrupt. (Granted Word isn't a desktop publishing program.) My guess is that any Adobe product is excellent. My experience with Photoshop, PageMaker and Illustrator is very limited. Best of luck.