Welcome.
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Know that if you had talked about virtual
reality or modems or faxes or cd-roms,
people would have looked at you
as if you just landed from Mars.
But now technology has invaded
every corner of our lives.
Used to be, if you wanted a phone number,
you looked in a Rolodex.
Now you can carry around a
portable electronic Rolodex.
Or have your home computer store phone
numbers and even dial the phone for you.
If you wanted to find out about,
say, Teddy Roosevelt,
you used to look in the encyclopedia.
Now with CD-ROM on your computer,
there's Teddy himself
with pictures and words.
Every man and every woman.
Comes down in a book.
Now there's the personal
digital assistant, or PDA.
Like apples Newton,
it has a pager to receive data.
It gets messages from
the office and more.
Four times a day I get daily
updates on World News, Sports News,
entertainment, business news.
It recognizes your handwriting.
It even sends faxes. Will it go get coffee
or pick up lunch for you?
But it does have an alarm
in it will will wake you up.
I could actually circle this.
Or if I wanted to.
Go into dates and
what about all the changes in home
entertainment? Remember these
8 tracks obsolete and for you,
younger members of the audience, this
is called a record. Go
to a record store these days.
Can you find any records? Hmm,
records. You mean the black things
with the holes in the middle?
Actually, they have a few records
for dance clubs and mobile deejays,
but CD's have just about replaced
the record and they're about
to replace cassettes as well.
I would say within the next two years,
cassettes be back there with your 8 tracks
and now you can get movies on five inch
CD's with features that allow you to
select any part of the movie you want.
The Ryan briefing? Sure.
Come on, this is no longer research.
Project San Diego is a frequent test market
for the very latest in home electronics.
More and more manufacturers around the
world are coming to San Diego because of
the demographics that we have here and
just the nature of the market itself.
We got a sneak preview of star sight.
It'll come out this fall,
and on screen TV program guide,
it gives program listings and summaries.
It also lists shows by themes,
movies, news, comedies, sports.
If you're a basketball fan,
you want to see what's
on what basketball games.
Sure, I gotta sports.
I go down to basketball. And here
are all the basketball related programs.
This will eventually be included in some
TV sets and VCR's when you buy them.
And things we're already familiar with
are getting smaller 3 inch color TV
screen and a combination TV set and
VCR that fits in your hand. Of course,
we're all familiar with
portable cellular phones.
You've all seen phones like this,
but did you ever think
they'd get this? Small
camcorders are smaller and now you
can use them with your computers.
The computer graphics are overlaid
on the live. Video on the camera.
You want a small computer,
or you've heard of laptops?
This is a palmtop little hard
to type on, but it does a lot.
Almost anything you can use a regular
PC for other than maybe big graphics
programs you could do on this.
And if you think you have the very
latest in computers, just wait a little.
A computer that you buy today will
likely be obsolete six months from now,
and there's not a Dang thing
that you can do about it.
Keeping up is hard to do.
It's the wave of the future,
and San Diego is riding the wave.
San Diego is becoming a high
tech and software center.
There are close to 200 software
development companies here and virtual
reality has become an actual reality.
Virtual reality is where you're immersed
in a computer generated environment.
Virtual reality was displayed
at the San Diego Electronics
Show for entertainment value,
but it has more practical applications
in architecture where you
could actually walk through
buildings before they're built.
You can have it in medicine
where you could have.
Surgery medical students, for instance,
could practice on a virtual patient
rather than an actual patient.
Kaiser Electro optics of Carlsbad
makes the headset. Angel studios
of Carlsbad did the animation
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It didn't even hurt.
San Diego has been a test market
for interactive television.
Daniels Cablevision has been offering a
service that lets you tell your TV what
you want to see at any given moment.
News, movie reviews,
financial information.
It has games you play against
other people on the system.
Then you can go shopping or pay your bills.
As for home computer,
San Diego is one of the most computer
literate areas in the country,
and we see it all here.
Multimedia is the hot item now,
cd-roms like Cinemania,
which not only have movie
reviews and pictures,
but actual scenes from movies like
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Would you make a jump like that?
You didn't have to. I have to,
and I'm not gonna miss sort of thing
that you really can't do any other way.
You can have a book of movie reviews
and a book of movie stills and so on,
but to put it all together
like this is really unique.
To multimedia computing.
The San Diego Zoo has a CD-ROM.
Choose an animal and watch.
That's why we're
here for it, to make their day better. And
there are the online services,
computer bulletin boards,
where you can converse with
people you have never met or seen.
Now if you just figured out
how to program your VCR,
all this technology can be
a bit too much.
The non-technical person can get overwhelmed.
Well, that happened years ago.
That happened years ago.
We're overwhelmed by
it. The future has arrived.
Open the pod Bay doors, Hal. I'm sorry,
Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.
In 2001, there was a
talking computer named Hal.
In 1994, there's a computer that
talks to Hal or anyone else.
Welcome to Macintosh. Thank you.
The Apple Mac Quadra responds
to voice commands or questions.
Computer, what time is it?
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Shooter open calculator.
Ability to knock out something
if it's all a bit much.
Some advice from the experts learn
about computers before you buy
one. The wrong thing to do is just
go out and buy a computer and then
learn about it. You'll learn,
but you'll learn a lot of things
that maybe you didn't want to learn.
The technology is not getting easier.
It's getting more complicated.
There is hope and the power and
the things you can do with the
computer today are so much better
that ultimately it's worth it.
And on the horizon, Taco 500
channels on your TV, video,
movies on demand, information,
superhighways with everything at your
fingertips. Here it comes,
ready or not.