Word: downloading
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...take a whiff of tomorrow's TV. You're unwinding with, say, a lively cooking show hosted by a hyperactive Louisianian. As you chat online with other home cooks and download a recipe (with click-to-buy ingredients list, compiled in consultation with your e-frigerator), your TV points out that your host's handsome, copper saute pan is 25% off at Williams-Sonoma. Meanwhile, as the dish comes to a tantalizing simmer--at about 6:45 p.m., just when your family of four usually gets serious about ordering takeout--the TV suggests clicking to order etouffee (and nonspicy chicken...
...directions, you don't really know where to click or why. But once you start, the series of strange, colorful pictures and patterns that flash before your eyes will keep you amused and intrigued. For more pointed fun, check out the minigames on shockwave.com which require a quick download of the Shockwave player. I got hooked on Water Balloon Drop, but there's also online poker, trivia games and even an Austin Powers dancing game...
According to your interesting (yet strangely scary) articles, our children will learn at home through virtual schooling. We will work at home, shop from there and no doubt download the latest movies off the Net and watch them at home. You've unwittingly predicted the force that will ultimately destroy this new high-tech society: cabin fever! ANDREA SKORENKI Calgary, Alta...
...didn't hurt that there's a new outlaw in town. "When Mp3.com got outmaneuvered by Napster," says Wice, "Napster became the new bad guy, and Mp3.com became someone who needed to cooperate." Newsweek cover boy Napster allows music lovers to surf each others' hard drives and download the contents free; Mp3.com was more of a free-music clearinghouse, but really wanted to be its own little label. It wasn't happening. Now Mp3.com's revolutionary days look to be over - "The digital music space is still in its infancy. We look forward to working with Warner to expand...
...Download, Old One, and tell how it was in the Unwired Time, when humans spoke to one another with their mouths and wrote on papers they sent to one another through the skies...