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Pastimes : A New Era - Consider the Possibilities -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mike McFarland who wrote (7)	11/25/1997 12:33:00 PM
From: Barry Grossman	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 272

Mike, Obviously we're not there yet, but...imagine if you will, that you had your own phone on your person, say on your wrist, that could access a satellite link to the internet, thus eliminating the $12/min gouging that you suffered but incurring a reasonable charge instead, and that even the local bus schedule in FP was accessable by asking your device, in your choice of natural language, the questions you wanted answered and having the device find the information and give it to you verbally. You wouldn't even have to remember the details - the device would file the message so that you could replay it whenever you wanted it played back. You might even be able to access the bus itself and ask the bus if it was on schedule. The bus would know where it was and compared to the scedule would be able to tell you when it could be expected. Information, if readily available, does some interesting things for frustration levels. Barry