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To: HG who wrote (88846)12/28/1999 1:11:00 PM
From: KeepItSimple  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 164684
 
Yes Happy, eventually we will all end up stuck in our homes, never leaving. Everything will be delivered to us.

And then we'll have REALLY GOOD virtual reality, so good that you never want to come out of it. And then people will just rent little cubes to live in, instead of houses or apartments, because who cares about furniture when you live in VR world?

And then, we'll just have nutrients dripped intravenously instead of eating meals.

So the local glucose delivery truck will make its rounds every few days and top off the tank on the side of everyone's cubes.

Well, either that, or these e-commerce stocks are just a more efficient form of catalog sales, and humans will continue to be human and socialize and visit stores. In that case, I suppose these stocks probably arent worth 1,500 times year 2030 estimated earnings.




To: HG who wrote (88846)12/28/1999 1:40:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 164684
 
Maybe I'm being too ambitious here, may be I'm dreaming, but I see grocery, book stores, electronics, drugstores and
all the mundane shopping going 90% online and becoming obsolete in 50 years time. I also see local delivery servies
booming...or maybe the online retailers may take on local deliveries as well.


Immediate gratification will not go away.