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...meantime. Basically, the plan is that the Redmond boys check with their lawyers before going to the bathroom. It's the biggest antitrust decision since the 1984 AT&T splintering (which was by consent decree, not court order) and it's sure to have the rest of the high-tech industry alternately leaping for joy and wondering whether down the road, the government exterminator will be worse than the rat. But mainly, it's round...
...device debate right now is over convergence: Will single-purpose machines prevail, or will new appliances emerge with multiple functions? It's a high-tech version of Lamarckian evolution, in which new characteristics are acquired through demand. You can expect cell phones to sprout color monitors so they can be used to surf the Web, and PDAs to develop telephonic capability. When the convergence is complete, the theory goes, we'll have a single device combining in one small, supersmart package the qualities of a PDA, cell phone and pager--allowing you to schedule, e-mail, call, beep and surf...
...acquisition of cable giant MediaOne, a corporate marriage that will create America's largest cable provider. If the other regulatory body involved, the Federal Communications Commission, gives AT&T the nod, the corporation will have successfully transformed itself from an old-school telephone giant into a high-tech force to be reckoned with - and will have done so remarkably quickly. Only Time Warner (the parent company of TIME.com) would rival the AT&T-MediaOne mega-company...
...HIGH-TECH COMOUFLAGE Smart materials will instantly change uniform patterns and colors. A special system will project 360[degree] false images, making the soldier invisible...
...smart door and listen as your desktop virtual assistant reads aloud your schedule for the day. The temperature and lighting will adjust automatically to your preferences. Though we probably won't attain the mythical paperless office, there will likely be less of the messy stuff lying about, thanks to high-tech, rewritable parchment. And forget about typing: sophisticated voice recognition will let you tell your PC what to do (though all that yakking could just as easily make you hoarse...