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[profpr]

Покупки по Интренету до того, как Гор его изобрел. "All that the wife selects at her console will be paid by her husband at his console." Вот это предсказано прямо в точку.

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[agershenson.livejournal.com]

damn.... the scary part is that it all exists... they even predicted handwriting recognition, which is not quite mainstream yet (end of the clip)

[profpr.livejournal.com]

Gmm. They don't actually say anything about recognition - just that you can communicate with anybody in the world - like with a fax. Otherwise why would the male look at the scanned images of the bills? For me, both strange and funny is videophone, which was forecast virtually everywhere, is very easy to implement, and still did not catch up. I think, it is just that it has very little utility.

[agershenson.livejournal.com]

the videophone is here- I use it every day (skype)
the handwriting recognition is at the very end of the film- when they essentially talk about email he takes a pen and writes on a tablet :-)

[profpr.livejournal.com]

How common are people are actually using the video? May be it's a generational thing: I know of nobody who would use video with skype, which precludes me from installing the cam on my computer.

[agershenson.livejournal.com]

hmmm maybe. I would say that 80 percent of my skype contacts have video