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...began innocently enough: I was stuck at home, recovering from back surgery, and needed some diversion. Bored with channel surfing and unable yet to return to running, I borrowed a PC from the office, hooked up a modem and began to check out the local computer bulletin board (BBS) scene...
...nonpayment -- because I wasn't off-line enough to open the bills. My work and financial records moved to a corner of the living room as I reassigned home-office space; after all, a brand-new 386- model PC, color monitor, fast dot-matrix printer and 2400 bps modem deserved their own desk and room. Visits to local computer supermarkets became more frequent than trips to neighborhood bookstores. Relatives and friends complained about busy signals and demanded that I get home voice-mail service...
...sure I won't be that far away from cyberspace. I still have to finish tuning up my brand-new Pentium 90 speedster with the 2-gigabyte SCSI drive, 32 megs of screaming RAM, a 17-in., 16.7 million color screen, 4x CD-ROM drive, V.34 superdata highway modem. But before taking it out for a spin...
Rain or shine, few Americans will go to the polls on Election Day in November 2020. Most will vote by modem, telephone or mail -- and overall citizen participation will be much greater than it is today. So will citizen interest, partly because four or five reasonably serious presidential candidates will be on the ballot, along with at least one official referendum and perhaps half a dozen national advisory referendums. Enthusiasm for the democratic process will have reached a point where even Washington should be more popular...
...high school-style lockers where they stow their personal belongings. Unanchored, workers move about wherever their business takes them. Given the choice of working where they please, nearly half the staff telecommutes either from home or from the road, keeping in touch by pager, cellular phone, fax, computer and modem...