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To: sonyNchair who wrote (4347)1/6/1999 4:43:00 AM
From: B. A. Marlow  Respond to of 17679
 
Great article, sonyNchair.

Visit with us often!

BAM



To: sonyNchair who wrote (4347)1/6/1999 5:54:00 AM
From: flickerful  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 17679
 
sony....

good to see you again.
i'm a long time fan...
#reply-5040673

but
the current situation
at ampex suggests if they are to execute timely
anything... it must be with an eye to timely rewards.
not
to suggest the future would not hold some promise...
it just seems presently impracticable.



To: sonyNchair who wrote (4347)1/6/1999 3:43:00 PM
From: Gus  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 17679
 
......Eventually we will be sharing virtual-reality experiences with each other that are as convincing as real experiences, Kurzweil believes. We will be able to stroll down virtual beaches in our virtual bodies with tactile feedback so convincing that in his view, we will prefer sharing experiences with other virtual personalities to the real thing. We will do things with each other in VR that will have consequences in the real world, according to Kurzweil, but they won't be the same consequences that would normally occur in the real world .....

This is going to make drugs and maybe even organized religion seem lame. <g>

....if management has the vision and an ability to execute in a timely fashion.

There you go. The crux of the matter.

Mukluk is the name of the Northern Alaskan territory that is supposedly the greatest dry hole in the history of 20th century Big Oil. Initial tests in the late seventies showed that it was potentially bigger than the Middle East and the North Sea combined. Everybody went there. And then nothing.

At this point, everything depends on Bramson. Will he eschew the mass market of the web to focus on what at this point may look like the profitable corporate niches of the near future? The history of the internet's bluest chip show that AOL had to create financial statement fiction to support the stock sales that it needed to fund the early years of the process of branding America Online. Today, AOL is now well on its way to becoming a true global brand. Let us hope that even if AXC does become the equivalent of Mukluk for all its shareholders, it won't be for lack of vision or savvy.

Thanks. Really great article. And loved the name, hated the music. <g>



To: sonyNchair who wrote (4347)1/16/1999 9:53:00 PM
From: Scott H. Davis  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 17679
 
RE: The Kurzwiel article - don't think so. I think there is going to be some serious computer/high tech backlash next year as we see the fruits of our mismanagement & dependancy on something that was a human creation. Scott