Why Do Other People Care?
- Nifty stuff like cine logos
- Sounds that play when a user loads a page
- Music that plays in the background on a page
- Cartoon style animations
- Realtime video
- Games
- $500 computer
- CPU (especially bytecode optimized)
- Lot's of memory
- HDTV chip
- High speed internet connections (cable)
- Platform independent applications
- Architecturally neutral (except for bytecode machines -- future).
- Automatic support for wide array of systems
- Uniform look and feel across platforms
J. Anthony Parker, MD, PhD, Tony_Parker@bih.harvard.edu