What does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global society ? What is the image they pursue ?
CONVERGENCE: Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only
to sell others goods but direct sales.
Their dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the broadband connections really works then personal computers become network devices or
AOL Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections they will control the content.
The contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and
on-line sales provide the profits.
It's not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions, even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and a thousand other products and services.
Also some new technology may come along to change all the rules
If physicist Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands of miles over electric lines
at the speed of light he will produce perhaps the most significant development in communications since Alexander
Graham Bell.
That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both
earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for
light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the
creation and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT.
connected to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our
time - having more importance than the silly political debates, because
economics come from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly
the railroads, automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are
the drivers of our history - culture - social being - and therefore our
economy and political system.
The new world order is not an idea or
ideology but of commerce based on transportation and communications.
Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of our times -
Disintermediation means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning. I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
AOL can do what Sears did.
The Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
StarOffice 5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
StarOffice has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations, HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user experience and productivity.
StarOffice 5.1 includes:
StarOffice Writer for document editing,
StarOffice Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice Workplace for creating a desktop environment
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations,
drawing, mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents,
diagrams, images, formula, is really MUCH better than Office and
word.
And
it's free
The integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations,
drawing, mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams,
images, formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And it's free
Research methods for the Internet:
Many students and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why not both ? )
Then look at
http://www.wiredbrain.com/portals.htm for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5 to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea of their advantages and limitations.
After you have downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
but keep you files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages ( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer right click "save picture as"
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