We're about to find out. This startlingly innovative breakthrough endows your microwave oven with online banking and Internet access. But the effort to crossbreed TV and the Net is likely to prove as ludicrous and pointless as the notion that you might want to surf the Web from your microwave oven.
Some new technologies take off effortlessly, as if self-propelled.
Users grab them, find dozens of new uses for them and weave them into daily life and work. A lot of technologies, though, are born amid hoopla but fail to catch on with the public. All rights reserved.