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From: vail@tegra.UUCP (Johnathan Vail)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Electronic Newspapers
Message-ID: <491@atlas.tegra.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 89 20:59:34 GMT
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In-reply-to: harry@moncam.co.uk's message of 4 May 89 08:54:42 GMT


Why limit yourselves to thinking of the technology of today.  Why not
something like Stargate or using the cable from cable TV?  There is
plenty of unused bandwidth (or mis-used if you really look at how much
junk is on the tube) even with today's technology.  Your home computer
(/HDTV/ISDN terminal/etc (Kill your Television)) just sits around and
soaks up all the things you subscribe to, including audio and video
news for when you get around to reading/experiencing it.  If you want
to keep it just save it on a WORM card or such.

The monochrome Sun 3/60 I am on now is adequate for decent rendering
and it is by no means state of the art.  Imagine your HDTV station
reading the news with color images and video clips in various windows,
stereo sound and all.  Interactive.

This is possible today.  Imagine what will happen tomorrow.

"Even Marilyn Monroe was a man, but, this, tends to get overlooked,
 by, our mother fixated overweight sexist media" -- Robin Hitchcock
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