Convergence leads to commerce

Convergence leads to commerce

Communicatio Bandwidth

Explodes

Content

Databases

increase 60%/yr

Computation

60%/yr faster & 20%/yr cheaper!

Telecomputer

Commerce

(communication,

MM databases,

transactions)

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Notes:

Backing these up is the bandwidth explosion and the platform explosion with larger, faster and cheaper machines.

The key to growth is an instrument I want to call the telecomptuer or the device that accesses Internet is the fact it will decline at over 20% per year. This means we will have a $1500, 1995 multimedia computer for a few hundred dollars sooner than you think.

I’m going to discuss the Telecomputer or network terminal at the end of this presentation.