Word: fax
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...souped-up PC, you'll need an array of space-hogging peripherals like a printer and a scanner. Fortunately, companies like Brother, Canon and Xerox recently unveiled a new and improved class of multifunction printers (starting at $500) that combine the features of a scanner, a copier and a fax machine. "People never took delight in having 20 different cables going around the desk," says Envisioneering's Richard Doherty. "Now you have all-in-one peripherals and one or two cables to plug in, and you're finished." Tempting. But you'd better have a backup plan...
Cable-wiring the houses would also prepare Harvard for the future of communications technology. Soon, the appliances we consider to be separate technological entities--the television, the VCR, the computer, the telephone, and the fax machine--will condense into one "super-appliance." This tele-compu-video-fax-phone will change technology so that all tele-communications, from logging on to the Internet to talking on the telephone to receiving cable television, will take place through a new type of fiber-optic cable wire now being laid by cable and telephone companies. Laying this cable wire would provide students with cable...
That was that. I came home, and the next day I glanced at the fax I had sent to the sponsor. The tone of self-righteousness was a little mortifying. More than a little. When you write a sanctimonious letter, it is hard to keep it under control; there is a tendency to rise to indecent heights of piety. You don't simply argue the facts at hand, you rise in defense of godliness and decency and the First Amendment and oppressed peoples everywhere. Then, six weeks later, a heavy-set woman jabs her finger at you and accuses...
...hasten to point out, a zero when it comes to digits: I've dealt for years with postal code numbers, telex codes and apartment-block addresses like 99-34 67th Road (#6D). But now, all of a sudden, I have to list extension numbers for voice mail, fax numbers for home (thus doubling the number of numbers to list and, in the process, often extending the length of each number, to cope with a digital dearth) and http://'s. To reach a friend a few blocks away, I have to type 38 letters that mean nothing, a numeral, two underlines...
...even as our small-world omni-accessibility reduces our identities to IDs, and you into u ("While-U-Wait"), our coordinates multiply daily. Not long ago, one of my oldest friends gave me his number in Tokyo, his office number in Tokyo, his home fax number, his office fax number, his home and office numbers in Hong Kong, his fax numbers in both places, a 1-800 number for his voice mail, his mobile number, his mother's fax number, his office's fax number in London, his E-mail address--and the toll-free number for calling his voice...