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To: Sawtooth who wrote (21760)	1/21/1999 1:56:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Tim, "Email is the killer app, it just needs to be leveraged effectively." Not only that, but it has technological potential barely thought of yet. The big killer of the "killer app." is keyboards. Unless people have learned as children, they are two fingered hunt-and-peckers who can't get moving on it. A bit like learning a foreign language [or anything] when over age 22 - it never sinks in properly, to become 'hard-wired'. People read much faster than talk, so we scan acres of text, in the Web, flicking over stuff of casual interest. With precise voice recognition systems, voice mail could be text based. Easy input, rapid reading at the other end. People prefer written stuff for speed of handling, permanence, less need to remember things, can be forwarded and handled in other media. Stuff like that. Voice is good to send emotion - for the human vibes. To feel the person. But it's better to read than listen to: "Meet you at the museum at 10.10 am - 3141 Taneatua Boulevard. Call me at TIMA@hotmail [which of course comes up in blue to click on it] if you wanna talk. And hey, check out this photo of some Babes in Dubbo. Cool eh?" You click to the Babe url and take a gander at the Babes. No more phone numbers, no more keyboard, easy to remember the details, can forward to wife to say where you'll be after work [have to explain to her that the Babes are basestations and TIMA isn't Tina mis-spelled and Hotmail isn't a "Hot Male" club . EVERYONE will want that in their 'son of pdQ'. I agree. Hang on like mad to Eudora. That could still turn out to be the crown jewels, with cdma an also ran. It is an advertising medium, a communications tool for anyone who can talk, listen or read. Sure it will take some development money. So did cdmaOne - draining OmniTRACS, but that was great. Each development funds the next. That is how the West was won and why poor countries stay poor - no capital formation. Mquarkce