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 Most of you probably remember the Betamax/VHS dilemma. When video taping of television programs went main stream, these two competing standards were both released into the marketplace. They were incompatible with each other and the consumer was left to determine which standard would ultimately win. Even though Betamax was far superior to VHS, those who guessed Betamax were severely punished when the cheaper VHS standard won the majority of buyers. Betamax purchasers were forced to relegate their machines to the junk pile and buy into the VHS standard.
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 Semi conductive ink and new materials revealed today by Xerox Corporation may make flexible roll-up television screens and computer displays one step closer to reality.
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 Inventions like the automobile, phonograph, and telephone have changed our lives. Now technology is changing everything, even these inventions that have come to define our daily lives. Most of the subsystems in today’s cars are run by computer chips. The phonograph has morphed from vinyl disks to cassettes and CDs to purely digital forms like MP3. Telephone have gone wireless and now you can even make telephone calls over the Internet.
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 In May of 2003 the U. S. House of Representatives earmarked $2.36 billion over three years to fund research on nanotechnology.
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 The first mobile robot to visually interpret its environment, Shakey can locate items, navigate around them, and reason about its actions.
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