Will your next computer be a tin can and a wire?

Considers claims that the Internet could destroy the personal computer (PC) industry. How PCs are caught in a vicious circle; Internet connections; Launch of Sun Microsystems' Java, a new programming language; Sun's goals; Argument that though specialized network computer may catch on, they will no...

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Published in:Economist Vol. 337; no. 7936; pp. 75 - 77
Format: Article
Published: Economist Newspaper Limited 10/14/1995
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