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...with the television. They're not ordering pizzas, they're not playing movie director and they certainly aren't going over last month's sales reports when the Patriots are playing. "The old idea was that computers and the Internet and phone and TV would all merge," says Adam Keiper, president of the Center for the Study of Technology and Society. "It's an assumption people aren't making anymore...
Instead, says Keiper, convergence is happening elsewhere, in the form of ubiquitous computing. Every appliance is loaded with chips, and each machine can be linked to a central controller. There is a revolution going on behind the walls and in the basement. A whole new style of bundled multipurpose wiring, called structured wiring, is worming its way through the walls, with the capacity to handle cable, audio, satellite, phone and computer traffic. In the basement, computer servers (think of them as home mainframes) are sharing space with furnaces, providing network hookups to every room. Says Gottsegen: "We've seen...
Farmers notwithstanding, most Americans welcome foreign capital. A typical reaction comes from Lisa Freeburn, 21, who left her job as a bank teller to become a receptionist for the German-owned Keiper U.S.A., which opened an auto accessories plant in Battle Creek, Mich., 20 months ago. Says she: "I like it much better than the bank. There's more international atmosphere here. You get a bit of both cultures...
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