That improves the available contrast ratio and apparent image sharpness. It also makes the Black TFT easily the best LCD I've ever seen. The 64-bit computing revolution was not quite being televised, yet. Windows 2000 Datacenter Edition, recently released, was in preview here and there. If our entire package of CeBIT coverage seems a little broadly focused, blame the show.
Important stuff is on display in every building, on every row, sometimes on every stand.
What we think of as a PC, a PDA, a cell phone, are all converging. New product categories will hatch from non-obvious places. And those products will be wireless, from the shortest range to across a continent. Almost as important is that technology is bridging the gaps between nations and continents, between people and convenience. My i 2000 works on two different cellular systems, but in 10 years we may have a single global one.