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To: Scrapps who wrote (16224)	6/19/1998 11:25:00 AM
From: Moonray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

Excerpts from tech summit USA Today - 06/18/98- Updated 01:26 PM ET Televisions that deliver electronic mail and bank statements. Personal computers that compile videos of the news you want, then turn off the lights when you go to bed. Automobiles with voice chips that tell drivers when to turn, and who's calling on the wireless phone. We're awash in predictions as media and technology fuse in a process called ''convergence.'' But it's hard to distinguish fact from fantasy -- and whether we should react with awe or anxiety. To sort things out, USA TODAY invited top executives and policy-makers from the convergence world to share their views in our first Media & Technology Summit. Media Reporter David Lieberman and technology reporter Kevin Maney led the discussion. Q: A family gets up and gets going in the morning. We've been hearing a lot about networked homes and appliances that talk to each other. What's real, what's not? Benhamou: Most people get up at the sound of an alarm clock, but it tends to be a very isolated device -- sounds that come out and that moment is lost and not connected with the rest of the day. I think increasingly these sounds will not come out of a digital alarm clock, but they will come out of devices that are part of homes. I'm assuming that by the time I get up, the useful things to have taken place at night have indeed taken place. For example, my PC or my home server has received information that I'm interested in from my favorite online service providers. If there's been a change to my schedule, my work schedule during the night because something has happened in Asia, this has been reflected in my calendar and has been downloaded into that same device. usatoday.com A LONG ONE, but interesting. o~~~ O