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To: William L. Oppenheim who wrote (15052)	1/26/1998 4:16:00 PM
From: Clarksterh	Respond to of 70976

For all those concerned that computer growth may slow: In the very short term it may (or maybe not with all of those sub $1000 machines?), but three years from now I would expect every US cable TV subscriber to have a computer where they have none now. All of the big cable companies are upgrading to digital to compete with the Direct Broadcasters and the Telecos. TCI just signed a deal with Microsoft and Sun, not Scientific Atlanta. Can you get anymore computer than that? And, over a slightly longer period (5 years, although this is harder to call since there is no forcing function comparable to the Direct Broadcasters.), I would expect that we will see more and more 'smart' electronics (like voice recognition or collision detection in cars, both of which are much more computationally intensive than existing applications.). The semi-conductor industry isn't even close to saturation yet. Clark