ABSTRACT
Next gen telephony is so new and changing so rapidly that it is d ifficu lt to accurately forecast precisely what is going to happen next, or what is going to happen at all. Witness our Bell Labs picturephone example earlier. Nearly every writer and analyst from 1960 to 1990, at one time or another predicted that by now every home would have a picturephone as its central communi cations fixture. Today, the hardware for this technology is there, and it ’s cheap. While there might be a slight problem with the bandwidth for full motion video in most homes, nearly every business has adequate bandwidth, and limited motion video can be sent over dial up lines in homes.
