Don't laugh too hard. I have seen a demo of a refigerator that has a bar code scanner and computer (LCD in the door) that keeps inventory of what you use (easy), and will send the cooking instructions to the oven via 100BaseT using TCP/IP. You are probably not too far off. George Jason wrote: > > George Toft wrote: > > > > Let me state for the record that no personal computer will ever need > > more than 640K of RAM (William Gates III). That's right up there > > with "the country will need no more than about ten of these > > 'computers.'" (There are something like 2 billion of them in the > > world right now.) > > > > 22 years ago, I had 48K RAM and a 88K floppy drive and no modem. > > Original cost was $1800. Adjusted for inflation: $7000. > > > > 11 years ago, I had 1MB RAM, and a 30MB hard drive with a 300bps modem. > > Cost: $1300. Inflated cost: $2300. > > ooh, ouch - FSK was definitly out of style in 1989.. I had a 1200bps > modem (PSK) at that point, an Atari external, connected to an Apple > 2+, and people were ragging on 1200, because they had 2400s. Shortly > after, USR introduced the first of the 9600s... > > > Now I have 128MB RAM, and a 2 GB drive (that was donated) on a 640/272 > > kbps dsl line. Cost: $600. > > > 10 years from now I should have a multiputer with 16 nodes (each of > > which has 128MB RAM), and a SAN with 500 Terabyte ultra-RAID on a > > Gigabit network (because that's all I can afford) with a FreeT3.com > > (44.7 mbps) DSL line, because I'll put up with the streaming video > > advertisements for free Internet II access. > > Cost: $1200. Deflated cost: $700 > > No no, thats not "what the market wants". What you will have is a free > refridgerator with an unlimited OC3 and a 25 inch flat panel LCD > display on the front that constantly shows food and drink commercials, > encouraging you to purchase and/or eat, based on contents of the > fridge and what it thinks the contents of you are... Should you run > low on something, it will check your palm pilot 16 via microwave, and > if you have any free time, suggest either a resturant. If not, it will > pester you while you attempt to work, asking you if you would like to > take advantage of various "deals" available via delivery, and if you > would also like to purchase anything else. Consumers (the word > becoming ever the more ironic...) who attempt to diet without > purchasing extra food, or excercise in a manner not compatible with ad > viewing, will actually be in the "have-nots" due to their negetive > influence on the new economy in this bread-basket country ... > > heheh > > -- > jkenner @ mindspring . com__ > I Support Linux: _> _ _ |_ _ _ _| > Working Together To <__(_||_)| )| `(_|(_)(_| > To Build A Better Future. | > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss