In today's NYT there is an advertisement for a
refrigerator with an internet workstation built in.
And, myopic me, I didn't understande that it had
a use until I went to their website and immediately
saw a man in the kitchen preparing something
under the tutelage of his refrigerator (Sorry,
Harry, I was personalizing: I should have said:
under the tutelage of a chef whose image and
voice were being relayed from the screen on the
refrigerator's door).
http://www.lgappliances.com/
Perhaps the most disturbing thing about it is that
it is made by a [South] Korean corporation, LG, and
not by one of America's world leaders. But then
market leadership has nothing to do with leading
anybody anywhere except to the bottom line -- Oops,
sorry Harry, I was personalizing again.
Yup, I missed it. Soon nobody will be able
to cook dinner without referring to their
refrigerator's internet workstation. As Plato
would have lamented: it will cause people
to lose their ability to read recipe books.
\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
<![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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