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...HOMEWORK The information highway is an educational godsend. But for growing numbers of college students, the lures of the Net backfire, according to a study in the Journal of Communication. Trouble arises when students become hooked on the "live" Net of instant messaging, chat rooms and gaming. Students who felt Internet use had hurt their schoolwork were logged on to the live Net 10 times as long as were their peers...
...back to humans. Most speech recognition devices are "idiot savants," says William Weisel, an industry analyst based in southern California. "They can make them very clever on very narrow subjects. It's not artificial intelligence but embedded intelligence." In other words, it will be a while before computers can chat as well as my brother - when he was three...
This may well be the future of entertainment. Fast two-way connections over PCs, TVs and mobile phones are converging, plunging us into a world where viewers become part of the programming. Once platforms switch from analog to digital technology, interactive applications like personalized programs, chat rooms, takeout food orders and online banking will become interactive options for your TV. The size of the potential market is immense: there are already 1.1 billion households worldwide with televisions. Today, about 34 million get digital TV; according to a report by Merrill Lynch, that number will jump to 221 million within four...
Watching TV, in other words, is becoming work, not just for people like me but anyone with a PC and a TV in the same room. Turn on CNN's The Spin Room and you can continue the political debate in a chat room full of partisan psychos in love with the CAPS LOCK key. Watch a basketball game and you can log on to a website full of all the snooze-worthy stats that network producers get paid good money to slog through for you. Check out the Oscar preshow on E! network, and you can rate the stars...
...acquire, acquire. In three years, Davis took advantage of a powerful new currency, equity, to purchase more than a dozen Internet sites. Taking a page from AOL's book, Lycos became a one-stop Internet "community," with brands that ranged from Web-page builder Tripod to Quote.com a financial chat service, and dating service Matchmaker...