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Hour Two : Future of the PC

Is the PC here to stay? Or is it just a pitstop on the road to a decentralized, network driven world? Some say that PC is indispensable and getting more so. Others claim that as network connections improve, more people will use applications running on remote computers - thus making a full-blown desktop PC unnecessary. On this hour of Science Friday, we'll talk to computer industry observers about the different forces shaping the personal computer today... Microsoft, Linux ... and beyond.

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Guests:

Tim O'Reilly
O'Reilly and Associates
Sebastopol, California

Steven Levy
Science and Technology Correspondent
Newsweek Magazine
New York, New York

Scott Bradner
Columnist, Network World
Senior Technical Consultant
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Books/Articles Discussed:

"What You'll Want Next," by Stephen Levy, Newsweek Magazine, May 30, 1999. The book "Open Sources" from O'Reilly

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Related Links:

O'Reilly and Associates
Network World
Microsoft
Sun
Free Software Foundation

This segment produced by:
Annette Heist
Web producer:
Charles Bergquist