The third day in the North America continent.
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Reported By Tooru Ono


　The desktop in the hotel.
　Anyway, I just feel as if 
I carry my study with me.　
　It sounds quite natural, doesn't it？







　Mac and Liblet.
　The Mac is equipped with floppy device and a mini-printer.
A digital camera can be connected as well.　
The Liblet holds three battery cells 　
　which make me continuous use for about eight hours.
This means I can easily continue in-flight-work.　
　Can you see I've brought even a mouse with me? 
　
　



　This is the scene of my work on the desk. 
Yesterday, I got up at 1:30 a.m. local time　
　and kept working in this way until 8 a.m.,







　
including e-mail processing, registration of new applicants to COARA, 
and preparing the manuscript. No difference from the office of Oita..... 　
　
　
　
　
　
　
　
　
　
　　
　
　Mr. Aizu is in the mirror....
　
　
　
　
　
　
　
　

　　
　A container of coffee which is served 
every morning at the hotel lobby.
　I can drink coffee from this container on walking.
Black part of the container visible at right under is the drinking
 opening.　
　On the left is a digital video camera.
　As you can see by comparison, the size of the container is pretty big.
　　
　


　We escaped for a while in the morning 
　to enjoy a small drive.
Looking from Silicon Valley, 
the other side of San Francisco downtown, 
beyond Golden Gate is Sausalito district. 　　
We took branch at a first food shop there.　
　

　
　



Autodisc Co., is nearby.　　
Yachts are harbored in line.　　
？ere and there are sea food 
restaurants and fishing shops.








　
　Even a bird is not afraid of people?
　It came to sit on the chair next to me.
　
　
　
　
　
　
　


　In the vicinity of the town lives 
our familiar Mr. Howard Rheingold.
　It seemed he was busy but we dropped in just for minutes.
　He said he had just started a new company
named "electric minds."






The purpose of the new company is to gather
 virtual communities to build up 
on-line communities like our COARA. Hard to understand.
How to make business by that?






　

But his demonstration seems to be expected 
by many people awaiting by on-line.
　　I took the unique appearance of his 
office(modified garage, he said) by video camera. 
I hope you can see it soon on "Streamworks."　





　This is the house of Mr. Kesner, 
the editor of a magazine "Wired", 
about 10 minutes drive from 
Mr. Howard's house. 






　

　I remember he joined the Beppu bay conference, you know.








　　　　


His house is not so big but full of 
nature at the foot of the hill.　
　Big street trees emphasize 
the goodness of nature.
　
　
　
　
　
　
A shot of a nearby shore.　
　Inside of the bay.
　
　
　
　
　
　
　
　
　
A shot of a coast of the Pacific Ocean.　
　You can see only a part of the coast,
 But it is fairly nice drive course, indeed.　
　I remember I drove the course 
five years ago with Mr. Aizu.　
　
　
　
　

　

Wow! Here is a PC shop "fry."　
Looks like a warehouse shop just like 
"Home wide" or "Toyzarus" in Japan.　
Mr. Aizu explains me it is quite 
recent that those kind of shops were opened. 
On Sunday, the shops are always 
crowded by family shoppers.


　

　Those shops can't be found unless I get acquainted 
myself with the American daily life.
I need a car to get to the shop which is 
hard to find out from appearance. 
How can I be identify it as a PC shop?　



　　
Anyway, my experience in the US until the last time 
tells me how Americans buy PCs....
probably they buy them by mail order. 
This has been my understanding, indeed.　
Probably this is the future model of 
Comp-town of Best Electric Appliance.　
Here, I dared to buy a soft 
called 　WebPublisher for windows.




Now when I returned back to Stanford University, 
I found a just married couple in the campus.　
There was a white limousine and video staff(professional-like)
 as well. The couple looked like Koreans.　







　The world is wide, indeed.
Are they student marriage?　
　Probably they are rich couple, I am sure.






　As we escaped the conference until the noon, we quietly crept into the 
 auditorium. 
We felt somewhat guilty. (Not so much. Anyway I couldn't express my feeling
 properly in English.) 
After joining a session for about an hour prior to my turn, I
 instantaneously took part in the panel discussion.
As I got favorable comments yesterday(?), I was asked to sit in the center
 of the stage. 　I was relaxed today and talked much. At first, a group
 called MFP of Australia raised a question and asked "What should we do?"
 The counterpart panelists were from the US, Canada, New Zealand, and Japan.
 We discussed on various theme like Netizen and future society and so on.
 Although I couldn't understand English well, Mr. Aizu and I cooperated
 perfectly to raise hand frequently and appealed ourselves by overwhelming
 native speakers....ha, ha. 
This part will be  reported in the other chance. 　



My opinion today seemed to appeal successively 
since yesterday, I was surrounded by many people
 just after the session was over.　
Among them, Ms. Hideko Yoshimoto, free writer of "Asahi PC magazine", is a
 resident in the US.　






　As I didn't attend the morning session, she looked like 
worrying about missing me. She marked me very closely. 
As I didn't take pictures by conventional camera, 
I asked her to send pictures she took including 
some shots of yesterday's stage.　






Many people came to me saying I took you by my video  when you were
 interviewed by a young American lady, a member of Smart Valley Public
 Institute, who speaks Japanese a little.　

　
　
　
　
　
　


Mr. Kees Rovers of RED-line in New Zealand looked like very interested in
 this digital camera. 







This is today's report.