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Oddly enough, most people just want to have a conversation on their phone and don't want to take pictures, get e-mail, etc. etc.

37 posted on 12/16/2004 1:47:30 PM PST by Doohickey ("This is a hard and dirty war, but when it's over, nothing will ever be too difficult again.”)

Oddly enough, most people just want to have a conversation on their phone and don't want to take pictures, get e-mail, etc. etc.

Good points. Although the videophone was demonstrated in 1964 by Bell Labs, it never took off. Plus, how many people WANT to be seen while chatting?

Some additions about TV networks, even well into the 1970's and beyond, the coaxial cable and microwave relay system built in the 1940's and 1950's was quite adequete enough for our needs so we did not need direct broadcast satellite like some other nations did. Now with cable TV and the TV channel explosion, it has changed.