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@[]##CUSTOMISING THE DIGITAL EXPERIENCE#THE ULTIMATE CYBER-GURU#PRINT YOUR OWN PAPER#HEAD START FOR HIGH-TECH SURGEONS
In one second, an optical fiber the size of a human hair could deliver all the information ever printed in the Wall Street Journal#The information superhighway is now used by Third World revolutionaries. The Zapatista leader 'Sub-Commandante Marcos' uses e-mail to post his demands to the Mexican government#Nicholas Negroponte points out that "Every technology has a dark side. The next decade will see intellectual-property abuse and invasion of our privacy...we will witness the loss of many jobs to wholly automated systems"#In the USA 35 per cent of families (and 50 per cent of teenagers) have a personal computer in their homes#The city of Bologna in Italy and the state of Maryland, USA, offer access to the Internet to all their residents#Negroponte says the digital TV of the future will allow the viewer to control levels of sex, violence and political leaning in the same way as the viewer now controls brightness, volume, contrast#The cost of the electronics in a modern car now exceeds the cost of the steel. The average automobile now has fifty microprocessors#Negroponte claims that before long consumers will be able to buy personality modules for their computers. Install the card, and your computer interface will talk to you as if it were David Letterman, Claudia Schiffer, Arnold Schwarzenegger...
