With Happy Face the whole family will sit down on the new virtual sun deck that adorns your new cyber-house in Hillsboro, and make the tough choice between sending your precious Diane to Harvard, MIT or Stanford. Even your pet will be well behaved. It is vital for the American people to realize that we at Netscape and Sun consider HJHF only a start. Looking around the world we find hunger, war, injustice, pollution and human misery. Analog reality, one must conclude, is oblivious to fundamental change.
Lets face it, for most people the real world is rotten and is going to stay that way.
However, even if we can't do a thing to make the analog world a decent place, there is no reason cyber-life can't be made totally fulfilling. The sucess of Microsoft is proof that image is far more important than reality. Politicians, philosophers, scholars, generals and millionaires have failed to deliver a just and happy world to humanity. It's time to give programmers a chance. The entire presscorps was stunned by the announcement.