#GERMAN TV Project
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Hi there!
I'm a journalist with computer-fever working for the First German
Television (ARD). I'm producing a 45 minute report about coming
technologies in the next decade – for example much more Multimedia, a
lot of Home-Cybernauts and many people communicating via networks.
The viewers should loose any fear about these new wunderful things!
I would like to show YOUR OPINION in this film (13.3.1995, 8.15 pm).
If you have an imagination about the near future, please send me via
post two or three lines (including name and city)!!! It would be
great, to produce an important part of the film with your collected
statements!
Thank you and excuse my "virtual English"!
Stefan Scheider
75337,1423
Stefan,
Boy it seems hard to predict the future, when the future seems to be
spinning around you every day. I imagine that the future of computer
technology will evolve back to main-frames or at least a tightly interwoven
network, with cyber-priests in control.
-John
John,
thanks for the message. I saw today the "Bill Gates Information at your
fingertips" movie (shown at the Comdex 94). By the way, it was a great film – I
will use some minutes for my project. But I couldn't see a VR-equipment – not
at all. Just small LCD-screens showing videos and texts.
Now I'm wondering, if I'm on the right way: Do we really use data-glasses the
next decades?
Greetings
Stefan
Stefan:
>I would like to show YOUR OPINION in this film (13.3.1995, 8.15 pm). If you
have an imagination about the near future, please send me via post two or three
lines (including name and city)!!!<
Breaking out my cracked crystal ball <g>…
In the upcoming decade, I forsee DTV and multimedia becoming *much* more common
as computer equipment and software prices go down to levels the average
consumer can comfortably afford.
I think online connections will become more sophisticated, allowing people to
ship videomessages across the nets (once they work out a standard compression
scheme that can be sent across phone lines w/out costing the sender an arm & a
leg, that is).
Tho I'm out on a limb w/this next one, I think videotape will start to be
phased out by the end of these ten years, to be replaced by some variant of
recordable CDs (more durable, for one thing, and more control over your final
product).
And finally, I predict the rivalry between Microsoft, IBM and Apple will end up
in a shooting war! <VBG>
Hope this helps,
Tim Liebe
Contributing Editor, VIDEO Magazine
New York, NY