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...Welcome to the future of entertainment, in which highly interactive, highly personalized content is delivered via fast two-way connections over TVs - as well as PCs and mobile phones. You will never watch TV the same way again...
...TVs are becoming PCs, PCs are turning into TVs and phones and personal digital assistants are morphing into portable multimedia devices. But it is not just the devices that are converging. In the home, Internet, telephone, television and stereo systems are fusing into a networked unit that can be controlled either centrally or on the move...
...Integrating mobile phones with TV is the next step. Once Bluetooth -a short-range radio technology that allows electronic devices to communicate with each other automatically -is widely deployed, viewers who order tickets to a pop star's concert via their TVs could arrange to have the electronic tickets sent directly to their mobile phones. That's what they would present at the door...
...that while everybody likes the idea of a clean Earth, Americans aren't much for self-sacrifice. We drive SUVs and eschew public transportation, but can't bear high prices at the pump - and the "gas consumption tax" is political poison, deadlier than any arsenic. We own multiple TVs, surf the Internet, and run the air-conditioning while we're at work so the house is cool when we get home, but even in California, the most environmentally progressive state we've got, the mere mention of higher electricity bills as a demand-reducing measure sends shivers down Gray Davis...
Asian nations have tended to follow the Japanese export model of development, starting with labor-intensive manufacturing of low-cost items like shoes and garments, then moving up the high-tech ladder to refrigerators, TVs, vcrs and, eventually, computer components and software. North Korea doesn't have that luxury: it has no cash for capital investments and no private sector. South Korea has a unique opportunity to pump up North Korea's economy. Despite years of animosity, it is probably in the South's interest to facilitate the North's economic growth. "If North Korea collapses and forces premature unification...