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...five-year-old he could calculate complex mathematical progressions, and as a grownup he figured out that raw computing power was growing and the price dropping so quickly that one day every office and home in America would have a computer. With his partner L.J. Sevin, he helped launch Silicon Valley legends such as Lotus Development, Cypress Semiconductor, Borland International and an outfit called Compaq, the world's largest personal-computer maker. He's still chairman. "My brother has done pretty well for himself," says Harold with a smile. Little brother is worth about $100 million...
...cashless society, is developing what it calls an Electronic Monetary System that will permit consumers and companies to make payments electronically anywhere in the world. Visa, fresh off a test of 300,000 smart cards--plastic embedded with a cache of electronic cash--at the Atlanta Olympics, will soon launch similar projects in 14 other countries, including Canada, Australia and in Hong Kong...
...differ: it claims it is planning only to "educate" the public about obesity.) Just three months after the introduction of Redux, doctors are writing 85,000 prescriptions a week. Says David Crossen, an analyst for Montgomery Securities in San Francisco: "What we have here is probably the fastest launch of any drug in the history of the pharmaceutical industry. Our projection is that this product will hit $1 billion in sales in five years...
...fiber solution, though, comes only at dreadful expense. Time Warner, says Britt, spent close to $175 a home upgrading Akron for the Road Runner launch. At 300,000 homes, that comes to $52.5 million in fiber alone for one midsize market. At that rate, upgrading Time Warner's entire 11.8 million-home empire would cost more than $2 billion--and that doesn't include the cost of the modems ($400 a subscriber, but probably dropping fast) and other expenses...
...cable companies, by contrast, have a lot to learn. @Home's launch was delayed for months as it struggled to find a way to mesh its high-bandwidth system with the rest of the Internet, which is like an old mansion filled with narrow, twisty corridors and data-clogging culs-de-sac. One @Home innovation is to store data from frequently visited sites in giant computer files called caches--a solution that may not work if those sites change too quickly...