Evan GEISINGER

A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since February 1, 2000

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February 8, 2000, on Collaboration Machines:
Two unrelated comments: 1: I think this shows that for now, prtable wireless-linked tablets are the way to go (expensively) to get the idea of the future in every room. For further future, of course, there's glasses with display-superimposed-on-reality and it can be shared with others on the LAN. All of this is too far off, though. Really, I'm more interested in the first practical ubiquity, which I would guess to be no later than someone ports Linux/FreeBSD to a color-LCD cellphone-- say 4-6 years, at the outside. THEN, we'll need what my company (r-w.net) will provide, when it gets going... 2: The reason nobody rates your websites, Phil, is probably partially due to the fact that you have to click on a link specifically to do so. Now, if EVERY link leading off a page were actually separate same-target hyperlinks adjascent to each other (i.e. "Or you can go back to Collaboration Machines" if the last two words were a hyperlink so that clicking on the "Coll" part of the link (=left ...