Petabits; V-commerce; Smart Tires

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   From the WALL STREET JOURNAL, 22 November 2000, pg. A19, col. 5:

_Montreal Start-Up Plans_
_For a World of "Petabits"_
(...)
   Hyperchip is betting its future on its conviction that the world will need
an Internet network router measuring its capacity in petabits.  A petabit is
1,000 trillion bits of data per second, 1,000 times faster than a mere
terabit.
(...)
_E-commerce will become "v-commerce," in which shoppers use video to browse
through items._

(Video commerce...This "petabit" thing sound like it really gets the fur
flying--ed.)

   From the WALL STREET JOURNAL, 22 November 2000, pg. B1, col. 2:

_Firestone Recall Fuels Interest in "Smart" Tires_
_Wheels That Self-Inflate, Run While Flat Are Getting Boost; One Might Even
Call Driver_