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Date: Sun, 13 Mar 1994 22:47:11 -0800 (PST) From: "Joseph W. Stroup" <nettech@crl.com> To: com-priv@psi.com Cc: "Joseph W. Stroup" <nettech@crl.com> I travel alot. I get out my color laptop and many of the business people are curious. I explain what I do and when the Internet < "word" > comes up. I generally hear something like - oh , yes, that thing that Al Gore is building. Or Al Gore built that Internet thing, yes, I have heard of it. The most recent one I liked was... Well, now you know that the NSf is building this high speed super-whatever thing to allow us to all watch as many as 500 channels of TV on. Many people think Al Gore designed, developed and started up the Internet. Many people also think that the Internet will allow them to watch 500 channels of TV as well. And many people think that the NSF is funding such a situation. I am sure there are those that will have different opinions about this but, the ave. person I run into has seen the articles in the WSJ and or all those pages a few months ago in the WSJ about the Internet. Many of the everyday factory workers I know think that the Internet is the way we are going to get cable TV in the near future. One business traveller with American Express had thought about buying a home satellite TV system. Why ? Because he did not want to have 500 channels from his phone company/cable company anywhere near his house. He held off the satellite system purchase when he learned that there was a company sending Internet News via satellite. He must have heard about Pagesat ! The point is - Page One Headline: National Superhighway Etc. People read and think those headlines are really true. Its sad. Joseph Stroup
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