And it could scan expiration dates. That's certainly good. You could get an e-mail saying the cheese is going to walk out of the refrigerator any minute now. It's funny because for years people used to give kitchen examples-like the lady of the house can keep track of her recipes on her personal computer. I'm not sure very many people did that.
People actually do surf the Net for recipes now.
Those kinds of homely applications will almost certainly follow. We'll see security and environmental control being online. I expect many wireless devices will be linked to the Internet. In one of your essays you said the Internet would create a new medium. The medium I'm thinking of is more a question of the kinds of presentations one can do with the Net.