Technology of the future

I just interviewed Microsoft about their new HDTV-over-IP product, about which I hope to blog today or Monday. The most interesting part was the potential for features and customization. Watching Pope Benedict speak at the UN right now, I hope the first one they invent is the ability to turn off the TV news not-very-simultaneous translation of speeches in languages you understand, which is, at least for dimwits like me, so distracting that I can't follow the damn thing at all. Failing that, I suppose I'll at least be able to tune into a foreign news channel. Presuming they cover things like religious figures speaking at the UN.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2008/04/technology-of-the-future/3273/