To: Henry Volquardsen who wrote (1047 ) 3/16/1999 12:06:00 PM From: Zoltan! Respond to
forbes.com "In such a phantasmagoria, what could be missing? The same thing that is missing in much of the media coverage of the information superhighway: the personal computer. What is driving the "telefuture" is not any convergence of films and TVs, consumer electronics and publishing, computers and games. What is driving the change is the onrush of computer technology invading and conquering all these domains. The computer industry is converging with the television industry in the same sense that the automobile converged with the horse, the TV with the nickelodeon, the word processing program with the typewriter, the computer-aided design program with the drafting board and digital desktop publishing with the Linotype machine and the letterpress." forbes.com forbes.com "The government always discovers a technology after its moment is passing. If you're a winner, you don't go to the government. You're too busy. You've got too many customers. It's the people with no customers who end up besieging the government. There are all these wise-asses in Washington who really think that they can choose technologies. They think they know better. They get bowled over by every earnest representative of IBM who comes up to talk to them. Just now the US government thinks that HDTV is absolutely the future of the world because all the old farts at Zenith, and the broadcasting moguls who aren't really making it with the new computer technologies, are converging on Washington. It's always going to be that way. It's not going to change with Clinton and Gore. The dog technologies run to Washington, decked out like poodles. The politician is always the dog's best friend". cyberus.ca empower.org
