VR Becomes Art in Hands of Creator
Just over the horizon … are truly accessible virtual concerts, offering a new kind of interaction between performer and home-based audience. New, but not necessarily better; just different,
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The Future of News: The Consumer Wakes
The fundamental values of both journalism and politics are being challenged, in part because of the new technologies. Their problems – and their revitalization – are inextricably linked. The future of both depends on how effectively they can revive their core standards and regain the public√ïs trust. Today, American ‘news,’ an artificial construct that has changed constantly during the past 200 years, is under assault. Unless journalists work now to save it, the ethic of objectivity that developed in journalism at the turn of the last century as both a reform effort and a response to market opportunities may be doomed.
The Future of News: The Consumer Wakes
By the year 2005, Americans will spend more time on the Internet than watching network television and videocassette rentals will have been replaced by easily available video-on-demand services.
The Future of News: The Consumer Wakes
You are in your kitchen on a rainy Monday morning in the year 2005. You pour a cup of coffee and turn to the blank kitchen wall. “Give me the news,” you say, and the wall, actually a giant computer/television screen, changes into a gorgeous full-color map of the world. Headlines, pictures, or icons pinpoint the locations of news stories that your personal computer program has culled from a variety of sources around the world. You ask for each story in the order you prefer, or you receive an automatic sequence in television, voice, or text. You are saving time by getting only what you want, when you want it, while your hands make toast.
Virtual Reality Hooks Architect
You can be sitting in your virtual-reality living room and see fish tanks over on a shelf. There won’t be fish in the tanks. In one there may be people shopping at a mall, a baseball game in another, a city council meeting going on in another, and maybe a real-estate office in the last. You’re hooked into a network with all these people while sitting in your living room. You can fly into the situation and join the scene of your choice. The extraordinary possibility is people share, create elements of a shared world.
Testimony of William L. Schrader
Government should not provide direct funding to obtain and operate infrastructure, unless it is committed to competition with commercial ISPs and the need for continuous upgrade of hardware and software to maintain reliability and performance. Short of this commitment, it is not efficient for states to own infrastructure … In addition, a policy that requires the government to compete with commerce, thereby stemming the generation of tax revenues, is philosophically bankrupt.
Testimony of William L. Schrader
Exploration feeds our basic need for learning and satisfies our requirement for new knowledge. Exploration and knowledge have driven every advance in modern civilization. The Internet opens new pathways to knowledge. The benefits from that knowledge, and the learning that follows, will benefit not only the user but our society in general.
Testimony of William L. Schrader
In time, perhaps as soon as 24 months from now, ISPs will operate in nearly all the small towns and cities of the U.S.
Testimony of William Schrader
Who are the likely providers of the future? The answer to this question will be read carefully by all Wall Street investors, and it is not wise to comment directly on the record. However, in general, small independent players will survive if they find a niche market in which to operate, while the regional and national independents must compete against the Big Guys on cost.
Gore Sees Privatization of Global Data Links
[A] planetary information network [should be created to promote economic growth, foster democracy and] link the people of the world. It will be a means by which families and friends will transcend the barriers of time and distance. It will make possible a global information marketplace, where consumers can buy and sell products.