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To: Kirk © who wrote (13764)	12/22/1997 11:04:00 AM
From: Steve Robinett	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

Kirk, If you're argument is that electronics will "smarten up" everything from cars to houses going foward, you're of course right. Even changes in existing appliances will help. For example, a while back I noticed that Japanese manufacturers were putting a lot of extra capital investment in flat-panel display plants. They probably want us to hang a flat-panel digital TV on our wall. The same equipment that makes chips makes flat-panel displays, good for AMAT. BTW, speaking of car eletronics, someone's marketing a kill-switch the finance company can use to shut off your engine if you don't make the payments! That, of course, will lead to equipment to disable the kill-switch. Ahh, progress. Best -Steve