The Time Warner system will offer ShopperVision, an interactive television supermarket and drugstore. Subscribers view three-dimensional graphic representations of store shelves and can use remote-control switches to examine individual items.
Every roadway has been built explicitly to lessen traffic, yet today’s traffic jams are worse than ever … In the same way, I doubt that adding bandwidth to the Internet will solve future bandwidth crunches. Indeed, we’ll only find more people trolling the Net, trucking larger files across the wires.
Online shopping is a $200 million business that has the potential to increase to $4.8 billion annually by 1998.
You should no longer expect to find a collection tailored to the needs of your area. Instead, computers turn every library into a piece of a giant puzzle.
Many channels will target specific market segments. Video and movie on-demand technology promises to house libraries containing thousands of digital programs that viewers can watch any time. Over the next few years, tests in selected communities will give consumers, programmers, and system operators an opportunity to decide what works – and what doesn’t.
Turns out, “The Reader’s Guide” is available online. But I have to pay for access – for some reason, the concept that all information should be free hasn’t yet reached them. Hasn’t reached the Telebase system either … Public libraries will go under if they offer this service.
Meet friends in cyberspace; click a button to view any movie or program; browse through files of art, literature, and music; and play interactive games. These are the recreational choices that will be on the Information Superhighway.
Libraries have a nifty system for storing books … The Internet, however, has no such organization – files are made available at random locations. To search through this chaos, we need smart tools.
Speech-recognition technology that today allows simple commands to be understood will, within a decade, allow us to talk to personal computers, bank machines, and automobiles.
Most law libraries still subscribe to paper journals, if for no other reason than to give a backdrop of bookshelves for photographs of attorneys. But as libraries replace books with cathode-ray tubes, those paper archives will disappear.