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To: Jill who wrote (20603)	4/16/1999 9:59:00 AM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Exactly Jill but this is the age of the talking head. A person who speaks on TV who has no knowledge of what they are discussing. The same jerks who can't understand why Clinton can't lead a war and why he got us into one. The same bozos who can't understand that in war not only combatants but innocent people get hurt and killed. We live in a world where the people have heads with no minds and chests with no hearts. John Dowd

To: Jill who wrote (20603)	4/16/1999 11:55:00 AM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Have cellphones killed regular home phones? Not a good example, IMHO, because some day they will.

To: Jill who wrote (20603)	4/16/1999 12:06:00 PM
From: Jon Stept	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

JillN- re:"These devices will supplement and enhance and broaden use..." Hi JillN, I agree with your insightful comment. If you study history and technology, the introduction of a new communication technology tends to amplify the use of all other communication technologies- print, fax, mail, phone, radio, tv, computer. It appears a communication technology is never replaced or dies or slows down; it is converted, like telegraph to phone. There somehow seems to be this perception that this is as advanced as we will get, and that there is an "end". Your mypoic comment reminds me that we are as advanced as a 16th century european reading this new fangled thing spewed off the revolutionary new invention- the printing press! I sometimes think the human race is a hive, our purpose is to achieve collective consciousness and the history of man's development of communications is the evidence. Just my opinion. Jon :)

To: Jill who wrote (20603)	4/16/1999 2:04:00 PM
From: RTev	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Such a stupid fad to say the PC is dead. These devices will supplement and enhance and broaden use. I agree. It's one of those absolute statements that ignores the ways markets tend to work. It's interesting, however, that Microsoft has positioned itself to take full advantage of a market that moves away from PCs as the primary information device. Windows CE is the most obvious part of that strategy, but there's more to it. Some folks might remember hearing a few years ago about something called Microsoft TV. Wired and other publications did stories about it. It was Microsoft's contribution to the 500-channel interactive TV hype that was largely forgotten when the web caught on. Microsoft, of course, nearly missed out and had to scramble to catch up when the less-complex internet-based version of an interactive future became real, but they didn't abandon the other research and development. The investments they've made in cable and other broadband avenues along with all that TV research from the mid-90s show that they're still looking to become part of a home in which Microsoft products play an important role even if there's not a PC anywhere in the place.