Path: utzoo!attcan!ncrcan!moegate!soley
From: soley@moegate.UUCP (Norman S. Soley)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Electronic Newspapers
Message-ID: <292@moegate.UUCP>
Date: 8 May 89 00:45:03 GMT
References: <8905031352.AA16555@mica.berkeley.edu> <174@marvin.moncam.co.uk>
Reply-To: soley@moegate.UUCP (Norman S. Soley)
Organization: Ontario Ministry of the Environment
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In article <174@marvin.moncam.co.uk> harry@moncam.co.uk (Jangling Neck Nipper) writes:
>Are we talking about news over the 'phone, or having the newspaper deliverer 
>chuck us a ROM thro' the letterbox?  Until 'phone line speeds are comparable
>to ethernet, it's just not going to be practical, is it?  The average, 20
>page full size (ie, not tabloid - does it have a name?) newspaper must
>require several magabytes, including pictures, and ROMs ain't that cheap
>either, so what *are* we talking about here???

Well, one possiblity is cable TV, here in North America several cable companies
already offer a service called Xpress in which news is broadcast to people who
have purchased an interface for their PC's. At this point most of the material
is just straight off the wire services. 



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