From:	Richard Osterhout <bitrunner@***.COM>
Subject:	Re: Have you ever *grin*
Date:	Sat, 30 Apr 1994 09:46:16 EDT

> > You will. And AT&T is helping it come about.
> > > Sorry. Rip-off of annoying American
> Commerical.
>
> How about you explain this thing for us
> poor, deprived, dumb Europeans,
> eh?

well, for those of you on the other side of the pond...

AT&T is constantly running ads that show futuristic stuff, and then claim
that AT&T is going to be the company to bring it all to you...for instance:

have you ever borrowed a book from a 1000 miles away?
(shows a woman reading a book on a screen...gee, we can do that already...)

have you ever said goodnight to your baby over the phone?
(mother looking at baby over videophone)

have you ever sent a fax...from the beach?
(guy on the beach with AT&T's version of the Newton)

etc...etc...etc...
the thing is that most of these things are created by other companies, AT&T
is just going to be one of the companies that markets it...'course, if the
cable companies win the fight over the data highway, then AT&T will have to
change some of its commercials...

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