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- Hypertext for transferring craftsmanship <sum05 1 9>
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- Knowledge or For every adult who wants more knowledge, there are perhaps
- craftsmanship? 100 adults who want to acquire craftsmanship. For
- ============== example in:
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- │ tying fishing flies │
- │ slow-pitch baseball techniques │
- │ wallpapering a bathroom │
- │ redoing a kitchen │
- │ designing a quilt │
- │ landscaping a rose garden │
- │ restoring a classic car │
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- Visual hypertext In the coming five years, I foresee incredible business
- ================ opportunities for creating video disks (laser/CDI-ROM) that
- use hypertext to both provide desired knowledge and to
- teach the associated manipulative skills. <link43>
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- Consider the TV spokesman for the spicy Cajon Potato
- Chips. Five years from now, he'll have a monthly CDI-ROM
- disk/newsletter on Cajon cooking. It will most likely
- be sparked with Mark Twain humor and insider techniques
- to demonstrate the secrets of making craw-dad pie or sell
- you authentic bijou cooking tools and spices.
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- Electronic Don't laugh! Visual hypertext, coupled with a strong
- mentors personality, can create electronic personal mentors that
- ======= invite viewers into their lives, stories, skills, and
- merchandise (copying the Prairie Home Companion).
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- How to produce Here's what I'd do to become a producer of such "special-
- video disks interest Michael Jackson hypertext video-CD disks":
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- │ Take a course in video production for recording the skill │
- │ Build an image library (photos/diagrams) for close ups │
- │ Find a personality for the subject area │
- │ Create or collect the lingo, stories, and one-liners │
- │ Story-board the various video-disks you'd like to produce │
- │ Locate the associated books and merchandise to sell │
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- Far fetched? Heck no! The best mail-order businesses
- sell paper and ink (or bytes of hypertext) knowledge.
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- Does all this depend on CDI-ROM disk players?
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- Free laser-disk Again, I'd say "no." All it takes is one large RCA-record-
- hypertext player club-type organization offering under a membership plan a
- ================ free laser disk player and the four-button PC-Hypertext
- kind of browsing capability.
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- Spending $300 is Most special-interest enthusiasts would automatically
- nothing in your enroll for a 20-disk set of such visual hypertext (on
- area of interest cooking, sewing, hunting, sports, history, etc) taught by
- ================ a recognized personality using a one-to-one do-it-with-me
- and stories approach that is not possible on TV.
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- Summary The production costs of today's CD-ROMS average $2.00
- ======= per disk. Putting visual knowledge on such disks is the
- business I want to be in. Such a business will be much
- bigger that all of today's computing as people desiring
- craftsmanship or easier access to knowledge is many times
- larger than those who want to do ordinary tasks faster.
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- For that reason, I think the emerging mega-industries are
- the structuring of knowledge (creating an almost infinite
- demand for people with such conceptual talents <link60>).