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To: Shaw who wrote (17306)	12/21/1999 2:33:00 PM
From: Buckey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36688

IPZ went up way too fast so as always now is key - IS this the buy or the sell time - That news was good but I did not think it woul have that impact

To: Shaw who wrote (17306)	12/21/1999 2:33:00 PM
From: Postman	Respond to of 36688

OT-Heartwarming technology story by Vint Cerf, one of the inventors of the Internet. (Millennium Evening at the White House Vint Cerf's opening remarks about Internet October 12, 1999) _______ Speaking of biotechnology, I believe it will be routine in the 21st century to interconnect electronic equipment to our nervous systems. The best example of this using today's technology is the cochlear implant. The implant bypasses the mechanics of the inner ear to directly interface to the auditory nerve. A speech processor (a computer the size of a pager) is connected to sound source, such as a microphone, and delivers stimuli to the implant which directly signals the auditory nerve. This is a direct computer/nervous system interconnection. My wife, Sigrid, lost her hearing at age 3 and was profoundly deaf for 50 years. Three years ago she learned enough about cochlear implants through the Internet to determine that she might be a candidate. After positive evaluation, she had the implant done as an outpatient operation at Johns Hopkins University. After the surgery had healed, she returned to be "activated". About 20 minutes after this was done, she called me on the telephone for our first telephone conversation in our 30 years of marriage. Now I have a real problem: a 56 year old teenager! She uses the telephone regularly, listens to television and radio. Sigrid carries a variety of patch cables that allow her to connect the computer speech processor that actually hears for her to a variety of sound sources. On airplane trips she just plugs into the armrest - no need to wait for the headphones. Sigrid is here tonight, together with John Niparko, the physician who performed her implant surgery. John, please stand up for a moment. Sigrid, can you show us what the speech processor looks like? Tell us what was it like to suddenly regain your hearing after 50 years of silence? To sum up, the Internet is becoming and will be, central to human communication in the decades ahead. It enables interaction among cultures and societies on an unprecedented scale and among individuals and groups with a facility unknown in the past. In simple terms, there is an Internet in your future; resistance is futile.