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Financial model for tomorrow's learning world

1. Turn every TV set into network computer

2. Buy setup boxes to link TV sets to Internet

3. Sell at $300 or $1.50 a week on phone bill

4. Provide free interactive courses on Internet

5. Run digital TV learning channel

6. Make profit by selling add-ons

GORDON DRYDEN, Presentation to British Telecommunications' Think Tank on "Building the Communications Society", London, England, September 1996. Note: Since then, computer prices have dropped so the cheapest can be bought for well under $1,000. In September 1998 co-author Dryden recommended to the New Zealand Government that it should underwrite the cost of providing a computer to every child in the country, to be paid for by a charge on the phone bill.How to put





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