[105740] in Cypherpunks
Digital cockroaches, 5 IP's per body by 2000 [CNN]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Choate)
Thu Nov 19 20:10:17 1998
From: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>
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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:55:02 -0600 (CST)
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> X-within-URL: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9811/19/cockroach.cdx.idg/
> (IDG) -- LAS VEGAS - People think they're wired now, but they haven't
> seen anything yet. Just wait until the world is populated with silicon
> cockroaches - wireless devices that can communicate with each other
> and the Internet, said John Sidgmore, CEO of MCI WorldCom, in his
> keynote at Comdex/Fall '98.
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> "Everyone will have an average of five IP objects on their body by
> 2000," he predicted. Eventually there will even be digital eye glasses
> with voice control that would offer all sorts of information to the
> wearer. "Sony is working on the technology, so it'll happen. It'll
> cost $20." MORE COMDEX NEWS [INLINE] IDG.net home page IDG.net's
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> "Industry explosions like this are extremely, exceedingly rare,"
> Sidgmore said. "I think 40, 50 years from today people will look back
> and say this was the Golden Age of Communications."
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