All About Bob

摘要

The dossier on rover tags him "a happy and intel-ligent mutt dog" of "college age." He dines on "fast food and table scraps." You'd think that Rover's employer, Microsoft, would at least feed him steak. The virtual dog has a crucial job: navigating people through the company's new home-computer program named, with calculated simplicity, Bob. This collection of household-management applications represents Bill Gates's attempt to dominate the living room as thoroughly as he rules the office. Bob, due in stores March 81, is touted as both an essential set of tools to make families more productive, and a revolution in making computers friendly. If you believe that, welcome to Fantasyland. It's more like the wirehead faction's contribution to the dumbing of America.