This theme seems to turn up like a bad penny every time the PC industry struggles a little bit, or a new technology comes along that's supposed to completely replace it. Yet it seems that technology reporters don't learn their lessons very well, because it is starting up again.
People use PCs for much more than just the Internet .
Of course there are some folks who buy a PC just to get online, but there are already technologies to let you get on the 'net without needing a PC, and these have been with us for many years already. Just last year PC sales were doing very well, so obviously this is not what is going on. That means frequent ups and downs, sometimes due to valid causes, and sometimes without any good reason at all. The U.S. economy also seems to be slowing as well, as overall retail sales show from the fourth quarter of 2000. Two teams of scientists have succeeded in stopping light , literally suspending it in motion, by shining it into specially chilled metallic gases.