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Gazing into the future http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/17.html links directly to computers. The transmissions can also be used for portable videophone and Web TV applications, according to the company. Satellite program producer Japan Image Communications Co. plans to start satellite broadcasts for home computers during 1997. Offerings will include economic news and game software on the Internet, using the JCSAT 3 communications satellite. Other interesting satellite projects on the horizon include Skybridge (Alcatel Espace, France), CyberStar (Loral Space & Communications, USA), Lockheed Martin's Astrolink, AT&T's Voicestar, and Motorola's Celestri and M Star. The biz.pagesat newsgroup on Usenet is "For discussion of the Pagesat Satellite Usenet Newsfeed." Electronic mail on the move For years, national telephone companies, backed by ITU TSS, Lotus, Novell, Microsoft and other software companies, pushed the X.400 email standard, while commercial online services like CompuServe, Dialcom, MCI Mail, GEIS, and Sprint promoted their own proprietary solutions. Nobody really cared much about the Internet, until it suddenly was there for everybody. It has changed the global email scene completely. In 1992, the president of the Internet Society made the following prediction: ".. by the year 2000 the Internet will consist of some 100 million hosts, 3 million networks, and 1 billion users (close to the current population of the People's Republic of China). Much of this growth will certainly come from commercial traffic." If this comes true, then proprietary email systems (like those built on X.400) will fade away and even possibly disappear. Watch the Internet Mail Consortium. Their focus is on "cooperatively managing and promoting the rapidly expanding world of electronic mail on the Internet." Also, watch the proliferation of free email for everybody RQ WKH ,QWHUQHW The commercials go Internet Daily, new databases and information services appear on the Internet. Most are free. World Wide Web, hypertext, and distributed text searching systems (like WAIS) make it easier than ever to find information. While this puts pressure on the old commercial services, it also creates new opportunities. Many have already opened shop on the Internet. Others focus on making it easier for users to connect directly from this global matrix of networks. Eventually, we may well find everybody there. Telebase Systems resells Dialog and other professional and business database information to individual consumers through services like IQuest. Their offering is a top level subject oriented menu system. Subscribers can use it interactively at http://www.telebase.com/. Pricing depends on the database being searched. It offers databases with primarily business information from well known sources, such as Standard & Poor's, Dun & Bradstreet, TRW Business Credit, magazines, newspapers, etc. Dun & Bradstreet is at the Web address http://www.dnb.com/. You will find Elsevier Science, the scientific communications branch of Reed Elsevier, at http://www.elsevier.nl/. Cheaper and better communications During Christmas 1987, a guru said that once the 9600 bps V.32 modems fell below the US$1,200 level, they would create a new standard. Today, such modems can be bought at prices lower than US$100. In several countries, 56 Kbs modems are emerging as the preferred choice in competition with even faster ISDN and cable modems. 5 of 8 23.11.2009 15:49
Gazing into the future http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/17.html Expect developments within data compression to have a further impact on the costs of global communications. Wild dreams get real ISDN (Integrated Service Digital Networks) already lets many users do several things simultaneously on the same telephone line. They can write and talk while using the same line for transfers of pictures, music, video, fax, voice and data. However, ISDN is just an intermediate step towards much faster speeds for everybody: Ordinary phone modems at 56 Kbps; 2 Mbps communication by satellite; 2 Mbps by cable modem; up to 52 Mbps communication by ADSL. Increased transmission speeds are opening up for "a new world" of opportunities. Some of them are here already. Here are some key words about what increased speeds may give us: Teleconference with your mom on Mother's Day or send video email. Chats, with the option of having pictures of the people we are talking to up on our local screen (for example in a window, each time he or she is saying something). Eventually, we may get the pictures in 3 D. microWonders Inc. (Toronto, Canada) promotes Internet Global Phone (IGP), free software that provides two way voice communications over Internet connections. The program will run on any PC equipped with a SoundBlaster compatible sound card, speakers, and a microphone. The compression technology (GSM) makes real time voice connections practical over any common modem based Internet connection from 14.400 bits/s up. Fujitsu Cultural Technologies and CompuServe Information Service offer WorldsAway, a graphical 3 D chat environment where animated "avatars" interact in a virtual cocktail party. Each participant can control his or her avatar, making it walk across the room, sit down, etc., Conversation is depicted cartoon style in a balloon over the avatar's head. Characters can move, examine, exchange and sell objects online using tokens, and can even invite other characters to their own private residences for some one on one chat time. Database searches in text and pictures, with displays of both. Electronic transfers of video/movies over a standard telephone line. The "Internet Talk Radio" have delivered radio programs over the net for a long time. Paramount Pictures has a Web site dedicated to the motion picture Star Trek Generations. It offers a galaxy of unique Star Trek elements for retrieval, including pictures, sounds and a preview of the movie, in addition to behind the scenes information. Online amusement parks with group plays, creative offerings (drawing, painting, building of 3 D electronic sculptures), shopping (with "live" people presenting merchandise and good pictures of the offerings, test drives, etc.), casino (with real prizes), theater with live performance, online "dressing rooms" (submit a 2 D picture of yourself, and play with your looks), online car driving schools (drive a car through Tokyo or New York, or go on safari). WorldPlay Entertainment has played around with these ideas for quite some time. Your favorite books, old as new, available for on screen reading or searching in full text. Remember, many libraries have no room to store all the new books that they receive. Also, wear and tear tend to destroy paper based books over time. Many books are already available online, including this one. Instant access to hundreds of thousands of 'data cottages'. These are computers in private homes of people around the world set up for remote access. Technical advances in the art of transferring pictures will turn some cottages into tiny online "television stations." Before you know it, scientists will be able to collaborate with near TV quality video and sound connections. Find information about and navigate cities using three dimensional models (VRML) that are exact mirror like copies of their originals. Meet and interact with 6 of 8 23.11.2009 15:49
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