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...boxes and huge media servers that are being used to shuttle movies to and from households in Time Warner's Florida test. Others say television will soon be passe. ``There is a critical limitation in set-top boxes,'' argues Theodore Waitt, chief executive of Gateway 2000, which pioneered selling PCs by phone. ``The quality of the picture you get just isn't as good for text-based information as on a computer, and a lot of the information people are going to want will be text-based...
...there was any lingering doubt that the computer has become ensconced as a member of the American family, it was dispelled at the turn of the year by some startling statistics. For the first time ever, consumers in 1994 bought $8 billion worth of PCs -- just a smidgen away from the $8.3 billion they spent on TVs. The sales record in terms of dollars is bound to fall to the computer soon, though the TV's cheaper price guarantees its dominion in numbers for a while...
Many of the early approaches are local and small scale, but they may point the way to the future. New York City's United Community Organization, an umbrella group of neighborhood settlement houses, in February began installing in its project buildings 200 PCs with ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) connections to the Internet. Financed by $1.4 million in federal grants and private donations, the machines help the settlement-house staffs coordinate their work and give neighborhood residents the opportunity to cruise the highway, have access to government databases, exchange E-mail and otherwise sample cyberspace's many wonders. The city...
...flooding the consumer marketplace to change the ways people live and work. So advanced is this transformation that even some of the most recent innovations are already taken for granted. The heart of the cyberrevolution remains, of course, the personal computer. Cheaper, faster, more versatile and easier-to-use PCs are infiltrating the social fabric. Software like Mosaic and Netscape has made navigating the Internet a lot less daunting for average citizens, who are rushing to buy modems and sign up for online services...
Though perhaps not with the flair of Chiat/Day, other big companies are also experimenting with the virtual office. IBM, at which mobility is mandatory for more than 13,000 sales, marketing, technology and administrative staff members, has outfitted these employees with PCs, printers and fax-modems, enabling them to work away from its central offices. The computer giant's Denver operation, for example, was able to reduce its office space from nine floors to four, and it projects savings of $6 million over five years...