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So many appliances, vehicles and buildings will be online by 2020 that it seems likely there will be more things on the Internet than people. Internet-enabled cars and airplanes are coming online, and smart houses are being built every day. Eventually, programmable devices will become so cheap that we...
Before I do, though, let's briefly digress to try to understand how this happened. After Microsoft introduced Windows 98, it became the practice to embed all kinds of Net functionality into programs. For instance, live links to websites suddenly became commonplace in e-mail; if you were reading a...
In any case, the plans cannot be judged purely on economic grounds. They embed highly controversial political and social judgments. Just how much government do the people want, and what do they think it should do? Are the pending surpluses a heaven-sent opportunity to spend more on high priorities...
...guide users and advertising. (Neither system currently shows ads, but each has discussed future possibilities, including sponsorships.) "Our strategy is to embed it into other boxes," says TiVo CEO and cofounder Mike Ramsay. "We're going to build it into television sets and DVD players...It will eventually get embedded into every device." Ultimately, several companies will manufacture the boxes under license. Philips currently makes TiVo's box, and this month TiVo signed another deal with Sony; Replay has a similar agreement with Panasonic...
"That's what I just said," he chortled. "We must be able to embed these programs into a complex, sustained program of detailed operational plans that reflect the nuances of the various national and regional environments where our clients work." As he chortled some more, I made my bed and...