Chapter TwelvePredictions: Three Revolutions in Progress
127Question: I’ve got names and addresses stored in my PDA, in my cell phone, on two different computers, and on at least two different Web sites; none of them are synchronized with each other. Why not?
Answer: At least a half-dozen different industries are battling to control your address book.
Question: Why does the phone ring when I’m watching football games? Answer: Your phone isn’t smart enough to realize you’re watching the game. That’s about to change.
Question: How does The Wall Street Journal manage to publish a print edition, a Web edition, and a mobile edition? Because each edition is different, don’t they have to rewrite the story three times?128
Answer: At first they had ...
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