From:	What's this button do? <GRAFF85@********.CORTLAND.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Ahhhhhhh replay
Date:	Thu, 14 Apr 1994 17:13:31 -0400

> wonderful material. In time, applications such as X, and Mosaic
> will develop so far, that instead of a phone, a TV and a video
> player, we'll have a terminal sitting in the corner of our living
> room, with a small TV camera sitting on top of it, and we'll be
> able to use it to watch TV and videos (by ordering them to be sent
> to our screens, and tapping in our credit card number), use it as a
> video-phone, access libraries and data bases, or use it as a computer
> terminal. I fully believe that this will come about before I'm dead,
> and it's things like this that are helping develop it.
> You may think that I'm a dreamer, but I can already watch live TV
> from the States, using Xmosaic.

Dreams are what kicked this whole thing off...just follow through and
we can accomplish anything.


> The technology is there to be exploited, and,
> pretty soon, with the advent of ATM, the tight bandwidth should ease
> a little, at least.

BTW what is ATM? i saw this a little while back and the only acronym i
have for it is Automatic Teller Machine....:-/

--Phlatline