1998-11-20 - Digital cockroaches, 5 IP’s per body by 2000 [CNN]

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From: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 09:20:35 +0800
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Subject: Digital cockroaches, 5 IP's per body by 2000 [CNN]
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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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