I will never bank online, with all the security problems. I will buy computers, computer equipment, flowers, magazines and real books. A great idea that should have taken off by now is Web TV, interactive TV, enhanced TV, whatever you want to call it. Less than five percent of all TV programming is enhanced, and most of that involves old stuff like weather, games and episodic programming. Interactive TV will hit with a vengeance in three years, they say.
Some technologies are ahead of the times.
This one is way behind. The Skinny on Broadband Broadband should also be ubiquitous by now. If the Internet is a great idea, a faster Internet is a greater idea. After sampling broadband, going back to even the speediest dial-up feels like going from a Bentley to a dump truck with leaking power steering fluid. By all accounts, broadband providers have bungled in just about every conceivable way, from the delay in rolling out infrastructure to poor customer service, unrealistic pricing, and the failure to offer access to minorities and rural dwellers.