roundtable: Re: Summit -- 2nd Panel: Ask 'Em!

roundtable: Re: Summit -- 2nd Panel: Ask 'Em!

Re: Summit -- 2nd Panel: Ask 'Em!

Samuel A. Simon (ssimon@idi.net)
Thu, 24 Mar 1994 18:12:31 -0500 (EST) 

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 18:12:31 -0500 (EST)
From: "Samuel A. Simon" <ssimon@idi.net>
Subject: Re: Summit -- 2nd Panel: Ask 'Em!
To: roundtable@cni.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.07.9403240124.F22664-b100000@cap.gwu.edu>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.85.9403241831.A24023-0100000@idi.net>

     The issues between panels are related.  Getting the NII to every 
home has to be the end game.  The questions might be  which aspects of 
the service/infrastructre and when?  And the answers to these questions 
might depend on factors such as costs.  

     "What" goes to the home depends in part on one's view of the 
services and capabilities are needed.  I suggest that the internet itself 
is not the model, that the future superhighway will not involve computers, 
but instead will involve various home appliances with enormous bandwidth 
requirements in order to BE VERY SIMPLE AND EASY TO USE.  

     Various serivces and products will be possible only if there are 
easy to use interfaces, that are highly adaptive so that they can be 
activated by any mode -- voice, key, touch.

     We also have to imagine multiple, simultaneous uses.  One can be 
having video conversations in one room, while vairous data contacts are 
taking place.

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