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To: David Howe who wrote (61901)	10/22/2001 6:37:53 AM
From: Timetobuy	Respond to of 74651

Not really. I pay $400 to go out to dinner and a play and I've gone to a virtual reality shop. Doesn't mean I put in a playhouse in my house and it doesn't mean I'd want this toy that is going to take up my valuable time when I can pay to go out and have the extra time to go to a nice dinner. But hey. Maybe you're like my brother. Is this going to put the virtual reality shops out of business in three years? ROFLMAO! And if that doesn't happen for three years, I think I better wait to get a new pc. The ones they are putting out today won't be good enough.

To: David Howe who wrote (61901)	10/22/2001 9:14:55 AM
From: Timetobuy	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 74651

In 1999, my brother told my wife and I that any house without a CAT 5 connection to the washer and dryer, refrigerator, and dishwasher "wouldn't sell" by 2002. Told us that we were being silly because EVERYONE was going to go and buy a new refrigerator that we'd use as a upc scanner MINIMUM. He thought that would be LOW END because the better refrigerators would be able to tell when the milk was low and send an order to the local webvan outlet, charge our card and have it delivered just before we needed another gallon. We'd have sensors in the medicine cabinet to order more deodorant. The washer would sense how much detergent to put in and what temperature the clothes should be washed at. We'd never have to touch the clothes again! He went on and on and on. When he was done, my wife asked him who was going to bring the clothes to the washer or whether we'd have a robot that would go around the house to figure out where the kids had dropped their clothes and determine whether they were dirty or just an outfit that was dropped on the floor that day in exchange for another clean one. She asked him who was going to move the clothes from the washer to the dryer and who was going to take them out and fold them. She wanted to know who was going to put them away. If she had to intervene in the process, wouldn't it be easier to just put the clothes in, press the on button and keep the old washer? She wanted to know who was going to put the dishes in the dishwasher before the dishwasher determined the right temperature and cycle and wondered how difficult would it be for the one putting in the dishes to figure this out. Then she asked what was going to happen when we had a new deodorant arrive every day that the old one was left out of the medicine cabinet. Where was she going to put all of that? And she was really amazed that we could get milk ordered and delivered this way since my son leaves it on the counter until my wife puts it away. She told my brother that we'd certainly be drinking alot of milk. She asked him whether we'd always be ordering the same type of cereal when the box got low. When she was done with her questions, my brother didn't say another word and hasn't brought it up again. I haven't seen any houses advertising CAT 5 wiring to their refrigerators and washers either and I don't even see any washers that support it. Seems they were nice for imagination, but hardly practical. Where are those appliances now? Why, they are still in our imagination which is where they belong! They are very nice to think about and so impractical that they aren't going to sell all that well. Btw. The microwave is programmable. We can preprogram a whole meal cycle. Do we? No. Have we ever done that? No. Do I know anyone who has? No. But hey. Maybe we could have the virtual butler use them! I have a great imagination. I also know what the hell is going to sell and what is pie in the sky wishful thinking by marketing departments.