Re: test of Bell Atlanta Announcement

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

Dave,


As best I can tell, the word "interactive" in Bell Atlantic's
announcement doesn't mean what most of us think when we use the word.
So far as I can tell, they are not thinking about the Internet or the
web.  "Interactive" is something like selecting which movie to watch
and/or pausing it while going to the refrigerator for a snack.
Services like CommerceNet simply aren't part of the model.  I'd love
to be proven wrong, but I fear the Bell-Atlantic announcement is
simply aimed at creating the impression they're offering a much more
interesting service than they are.  This is not the information
highway; this is the six-lane off-ramp to the Cyber-Disney aumsement
park.


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