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To: Marty Lee who wrote (2122)	5/17/1998 12:02:00 PM
From: jas singh MD	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11417

Good morning everyone, Here is a TERRIFIC article that EVERYONE should read! zdnet.com click on content/click software....and enjoy Here is a portion of the article that SOME MAY FIND INTERESTING: Digital Leisure The new bandwith of the internet will bring a host of software titles to your browser, removing the need to buy and install a CD-ROM. One company, Arepa, is planning to work with content providers to deliver CD-ROM titles across the wire. Today, online gaming sites such as Sierra have already signed up tens of thousands of users for role-playing and strategy games, a foreseeable segment likely to grow in the future. Subscription gaming sites will also grow and certainly benefit from the ability to stream multimedia content. With increased graphics-processing power in the near future, all kinds os simulations and games will feature richer detail and more realistic modeling. Whether on the internet or not, your gaming time will be spent exploring worlds that blur the line between fiction and reality with more photo-realistic 3D detail, betteraction, and more complex content. The move to put CD-ROM titles onto the web will take some effort, so don't imagine the conversion will be completed by 2001. Besides moving to a browser based interface, titlestoday often make use of Apple's Quick Time or Microsoft DirectX. This will entail work to bring to browsers. But the market for home software delivered over the web is potentially immense. It's estimated that the consumer software market will expand from $4.7 billion in 1996 to $10 billion by 2001. Chances are, a good deal of that software will be delivered-and run-over the internet. In the near future, users will benefit from a wide array of titles and can try and buy software titles as well as use services that provide CD titles on a pay-per-use or subscription basis. Naturally, the growth of the internet commerce means more opportunities to spend shopping, always a popular form of recreation. Don't expect the local mall to go under by 2001, but rest assured that buying online will become a more acceptable option for mainstream buyers with a widespread adoption of the rules and standards for secure internet commerce. As major sites for selling books and CDs grow, you may also be entertained online as well, given the opportunities for chatting withauthors and celeberities online. As long as you have enough bandwith, tomorrow's digital leisure will include many opportunities to play, buy, chat and spend time productively in education via the internet. The above article appears in the June 9,1998 issue of PC Magazine. Any comments? Sincerely, Jas