Its 70, 000 customers, mainly middle-aged and affluent, can run their accounts by telephone or from a personal computer.

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Many people lacked basic skills or education and had barely ever used a telephone, much less a computer or sophisticated factory equipment.

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But Friend envisions a time when the casing of a handheld computer or telephone will have one organic polymer that soaks up a room's light and uses it to juice a battery, which then powers one of his hyperefficient OLED screens.

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They are just simple, basic rooms with 10 to 12 computer terminals, and usually one or two telephone booths.

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But Gilder says all of the components and companies are now in place to make the revolutionary step into the age of the "teleputer, " or a handheld device that's a fully functioning personal computer, digital video camera, telephone, MP3 player and video player.

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Configurable triggers such as removal or tampering of the drive, removal of device from a resting GPS point, cellular telephone call, or even a change in temperature will release a "chemical mist" into the drive (not the computer) destroying it layer by layer.

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