Are Pcs Finally Becoming Passe?

Mon., Aug. 21, 2000

Compiled By Bill Sallquist

The personal computer may not be headed for the dust bin, but there are telltale signs that the post-PC era is dawning.

So-called Internet appliances are the consensus choice to replace full-featured computers.

Authorities believe that products that eliminate pointing, clicking, dropping, dragging and other manual gyrations will be highly prized.

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* Simplified surfing: World Wide Web surfers often abandon the Net in frustration. It’s a case of information overload and getting a virtual runaround.

Aggregators are hoping to streamline the process by coalescing information grabbed from all over the Internet inside a single browser window.

Some services have concentrated on ways to assemble bank balances and other financial information onto personal, password-protected pages. Others allow users to drag and drop their own “views” of Web sites into a browser window, then share them with co-workers and friends.

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