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Happily, not everyone's safety has been left in the hands of a glacially slow congressional committee (and the attentions of phone company lobbyists who see a considerable chunk of their clients' revenue disappear into thin air). One community has leapt to the defense of pedestrians and responsible drivers everywhere: On Friday, the township council of Marlboro, N.J., announced a ban on drivers' use of hand-held phones. And while the image of disapproving councilmembers might not inspire the fear and trembling required to convince errant drivers to pry their Nokias from their ears, perhaps the prospect...
...water). The Perfect Storm also leads the charge in this summer's digital bonanza, which includes Dinosaur's realistic talking reptiles, Titan A.E.'s beautiful 3-D space-scapes, and the casts of computer-generated thousands in Gladiator and The Patriot. And that's not all. See Kevin Bacon disappear in The Hollow Man! See Eddie Murphy dance with himself in the sequel to The Nutty Professor! See Rocky and Bullwinkle act with Robert De Niro! See Rebecca Romijn-Stamos turn blue...
...recognize you're using one. With advances in speech recognition, you'll be able to walk up, ask a question in English, and it'll dig out an answer. People with little education are going to be able to participate. The digital divide is going to disappear. Electronics systems will start doing what we want rather than the other way around--I hope...
Fear not, though: ads won't disappear. Product placements will multiply--including digitally created insertions that can be changed with every rerun. And as your TV becomes more of a communications device than a broadcasting device, you'll subsidize your entertainment bill (as you will your phone bill, your Internet service bill and maybe your car payment) by sharing valuable demographic information and agreeing to receive precision-targeted...
Like the rest of infrastructure, the Internet will eventually seem to disappear by becoming ubiquitous. Most access will probably be via high-speed, low-power radio links. Most handheld, fixed and mobile appliances will be Internet enabled. This trend is already discernible in the form of Internet-enabled cell phones and personal digital assistants. Like the servants of centuries past, our household helpers will chatter with one another and with the outside help...