"Every" Business Office, Every doctor's Office, "Every" school desk, "Every" home(potential patient) (approximately any home on cable) will have a two-way high speed link to the NII
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about 10 Megabits/second compared to
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about 10 Kilobits/second for a modem (14.4 kbit/sec)
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What does this factor of 1000 increase in performance do for the home?
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TV + Settop Unit becomes Computer (analog) (interactive digital)
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Modem & home PC supporting text interfaces becomes interactive full (VHS Þ HDTV resolution) video receiving unit
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Interactive implies that you can choose what you want when you want it.
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These consumer developments will drive MPP use
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consumer products drives better high end business and research user level products e.g., cheap Virtual Reality Interfaces
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MPP's are information servers for consumers, business, research
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