With increasing digital services, we are substituting the "bit" for the "atom" and computing for the physical. Digital services will be pervasive. More books and manuals will be stored and distributed digitally. We are seeing the beginning of it now and good examples are multimedia encyclopedias on CDs and digital libraries. The delivery of magazines and news will be done digitally through network or CD-ROMs. You can electronically select the articles of interest to you or ask an intelligent agent for it. This scenario blends with massification with personalization . For example, you will have more personalized news.
Some digital services:
Intelligent
agents form a new class of software which can assist people,
and act on their behalf.
Boeing 777: It first flew inside computers.
Encyclopedia in CDs: The IBM World Book Encyclopedia
Personalized news: the Pointcast Network offers customizable, up-to-the minute news on your computer screen.
