Then again there are already software products that allow you to use the Sound Blaster with a microphone and talk to friends over the Internet. At least that's what adds in magazines claim. Somehow I don't see this being very practical with the current data throughput, even with compression. Just think how many different busy computers each data packet has to visit before it gets decompressed and played. I hate to talk on a phone when my voice takes a second to get to the other side (worse if it bounces back and I hear my own voice from a second before). Maybe some day with cable modems I will talk to my brother in Europe, perhaps even see him on my screen. I know, the day is coming.

-Piotrek Pytlik

Above comments are not really a picture of my own fears of technology. I don't fear it, I grew up with it... The only fear I have is that some day the power will die while I'm saving critical data to my Hard Drive and I will loose everything. Darn, I wish someone else would make a backup for me, I hate touching the keyboard and talking to this screen when it is ignoring me. At least it doesn't talk back :-)

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