hi,
the article below signals a new NWO move to eradicate the socially useful and educational pc - with its roomy colourful and interesting applications, luxurious art, and sedentary and reflective habits ..... and the overturning of the value of education by making the internet globally accessible from bitesized palmtops and mobile phones/electric razors etc.
What can only result would be a disaffection with education and aesthetics - and on the minature dark screens - visible sound and word bites would then become the populations only source of wisdom - effectively disrupting the growth of the human mind and its memory - and censoring the fountain of diversity with cheap minature blinkers.
Let us make sure that the future is not dependent on philosophy taught by
something the size and wisdom of an electronic fortune cookie.
Andrew
Microsoft signals death of PCs
John Cassy and Jane Martinson
Thursday December 9, 1999
The death knell for the personal computer sounded last night when Microsoft, the world's biggest software company, announced a major investment in the next generation of mobile phones.
The agreement with Ericsson, the world's largest manufacturer of mobile electronic devices, to make Microsoft's e-mail system compatible with mobiles and personal organisers is a tacit admission from the US giant that the PC will soon be overtaken as the preferred way of accessing the internet.
Industry experts say that by 2003 more than 600m people will be accessing the internet from mobile devices compared to 550m using desktop computers.
Phones, walkmans, personal organisers and even digital cameras will provide access to the internet with users able to surf, read books, trade shares, speak to friends, e-mail and shop from the same device.
"We have entered the post- PC era," said Keith Woolcock, senior technology analyst at Nomura. "The PC is is being obviated. The technology world is now all about mobility. There is no need to be desk-bound."
Microsoft, which controls 95% of the PC software market, has only latterly acknowledged the threat mobile devices pose to its startling growth.
Bill Gates's company was also slow to pick up on the internet but massive investment has allowed Microsoft to bludgeon its way back to the forefront of the net revolution.
In the same way as it made Windows the world's standard software operating system, Microsoft has been trying to produce a standard system for mobile devices.
However, the Symbian alliance struck by a host of Europe's leading mobile phone, electronics and software manufacturers has proved more difficult to muscle past.
Mr Gates has already identified British computer company Psion, a tiny player in global terms and best-known for its handheld organisers, as one of the biggest threats to his empire. Psion and mobile phone companies Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola and Panasonic are, through Symbian, attempting to create a global operating standard for handheld devices.
Analysts say that although it is a David versus Goliath battle, the mainly European companies for once look like outflanking their Silicon Valley rivals.
"For the last 25 years everything computer and software related has come out of California," said Mr Woolcock. "Now all eyes are on Europe. We are ahead in the mobile phone market and that will prove vital."
The Microsoft venture will intensify competition among mobile phone operators to offer the fastest access to the net. "This is going to have a long-term impact on the whole wireless industry," said Ilkka Rauvola, analyst at Paribas.
"Ericsson has handsets, Microsoft has operating systems and has been looking for a way to enter the wireless industry." Microsoft has already teamed up with British Telecom to develop Internet and multimedia services for consumers and businesses to use on the move.
"Mobile internet access and services are crucial for realising Microsoft's vision of empowering knowledge workers and consumers through software anytime, anywhere and on any device," said Microsoft president Steve Ballmer.
The new technology that will drive the growth is called WAP, standing for Wireless Application Protocol, which is a piece of software that filters text information from web pages and displays the words on your phone.
Mobile phone operator Orange expects 60% of new hand-sets to be "Wap-enabled" by next year.
Last month Nokia launched the UK's first WAP phone offering access to e-mails, news headlines, sports information and entertainment.
Fuller details of the Microsoft/Ericsson link-up will be unveiled at a press conference in Stockholm this morning.
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