from Edupage

[David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

IN QUOTATION MARKS. "The Superhighway? That sounds like a place that's long
and boring and kills 50,000 people a year." (Dick Cavett at UCLA's
Information Superhighway conference; Business Week 1/24/94 p.6) ... "A
computer is only worth what it can fetch at an auction." (Paul Strassman,
former director of information systems at Xerox Corp;  Investor's Business
Daily 1/25/94 p.4) ... "The computer makes writing so easy that nobody has
to think at all before knocking off a 500-pager. Result: The typical
500-pager nowadays reads as though nobody had thought at all. My
suggestion: a new system warning writers that they have reached the
300-page mark and that going over 300 will produce a death-dealing
electronic assault." (Russell Baker, New York Times, 1/25/94, A15)




ECONOMICS OF VIDEO-ON-DEMAND. A Yankee Group analyst says that the up-front
cost to a cable or phone company for providing a customer with
video-on-demand will be $1,000 per household. (New York Times 1/23/94 Sec.
3, p.14)