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To: sam who wrote (17336)	3/13/1999 2:48:00 PM
From: pompsander	Respond to of 93625

I agree with Sam... and don't forget that a major, major driving technology for the next few years will be voice recognition. Whether it will be directing your PC what to do (a very mundane process, really) or moving toward the kind of consumer world where you walk into a room and tell the light, heat, T.V. stereo, telephone etc., what you want and need them to do. Remember, a huge number of very well off persons in this world are still deathly afraid of the PC. I have senior executives at my company who cannot keyboard, so are basically non-functioning in the direct production of our information stream. They delegate it to one level below. Imagine both business and consumers when true voice recognition exists and functions. Now, my point for Rambus is that all these devices, whether operating through a central CPU or through a variety of smaller CPU-like devices, will require memory interfaces. Personally, I believe that like every technology in history, once the bridge is built the engineers will load it up with every conceivable application. All of which must be stored and recalled efficiently. Let me tell you, the Sony playstation is only the simplest and most immediately gratifying of the kind of consumer involvement Rambus will enjoy. None of us will see the exact direction clearly, because average people like us have never seen the next turn in the road for technology. Then it appears.