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Other innovations don't just talk, but listen. Wildfire, a digital telephone assistant, understands commands like "check messages" or "send a copy to the home office" that she processes in a fetching Kathleen Turner whisper. Wildfire Communications Inc. believes that its voice-mail system can be developed into a full-fledged disembodied secretary. Wildfire may be helpful to you, but not your hillbilly cousins: she has a hard time understanding regional accents...
...eagerly about dual ISDN lines and transmission rates as he does about rope and backpacks. "Ten years ago we were in the Dark Ages from a technology standpoint," he writes in response to an e-mail from TIME. "Multimedia meant you had more than one cassette tape to listen to on your Walkman for the next three months. That's all changed...
...Victor uniform two mike Kilo Papa," Robert Kohli barks into a microphone, his voice spinning off into the ether via an amateur radio satellite 4,500 km up in the sky. He pauses to listen for incoming signals. He hears a crackle, then the voice of Charlie from Hong Kong: "You are strong as ever today...
...business. And the acolyte is really my computer, which, thanks to a variety of new websites, discussion groups and cyberapostles, is all I need to transform office space into spiritual space. I can explore or practice religion and religions with a few keystrokes. I can "attend" sermons and listen to calls to prayer, seek advice and philosophy. And I don't have to go anywhere. Or, with a laptop and connection, I can go anywhere. In the past decade, the promise of interactivity that came with the Internet has flourished in the field of faith. Steven Waldman, founder of Beliefnet...
...need a new privacy to match the new economy? Not long ago, I saw a survey that asked business people questions such as whether it's ethical to listen to employees' phone calls or read their e-mails. But it didn't raise the key issue: Do the emplo-yees know? If your friend Alice tells you something, is it O.K. to tell your other friend, Juan? It all depends on what Alice expects of you. And if there's any doubt, you should...