The bad sign is that only the Net intelligentsia are excited about Mosaic - the typical PC user isn't clamoring for the program. But getting lost on the Net has never been so much fun. Pagers I didn't much mind when all the folks on campus had colored Motorola pagers clipped to the front pockets of their Girbauds for that faux drug-dealer look. After all, people were so thrilled to get paged they'd return my calls. But the new generation of pagers, with their 3-inch LCDs and scrolling news feeds, have begun to get on my nerves.
News is no longer what fits in a sound bite, but what can fit on a pager screen.
Technology companies are excited about the set-top box concept because it will change the economics of television. Because a set-top box is really just a computer, it will follow the same curve of rapidly increasing speed, memory and features. Now, with set-top boxes, we will be pressured to replace at least part of our TVs annually in order to get features we don't really need. Inc. All rights reserved.