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♪ ♪ the average family home, cory practices her violin, christian plays with his cars and mike and carol worry over the bills. >> we went in with pretty much the same technology thats been in place for a couple of decades. typewriter. calculators. tv. oven. a car. you listen to music on a big old stereo system with a turntable. maybe you had a digital watch and that was the only thing that was going to be digital that you actually owned. >> hello? im not here now but my faithful ...

>> almost nobody can say, were going to take technology to this point. its much more chaotic. things rise, ball, bubble and fall back. great ideas pop out but nobody can find a use for it, so it goes away. it is a confluence of developments that are all happening at the same time. >> small and portable are the watchwords for the 90s according to manufacturers showing their wares in chicago this week. sony has camcorder that fits into your hand and a combination tv/vcr that goes into your purse o...