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Page IB THE HERALD Wednesday November 28 Lifestyle Computer trade shows By SCOTT WILLIAMS There are many signs of autumn and approaching winter different signs have special meaning for different people For some it will be the changing color of leaves for others the shorten days for others the in the For computer people the surest sign of fall is the onslaught of computer trade shows The Canadian Computer Show held each fall at Toronto International Centre near the airport is the largest of the computer shows held in Canada each year Comdex held each fall in Las Vegas has grown to become the largest computer show in the world In fact with over attendees and over 2 2 million quare feet of exhibit space this year s Comdex was the largest trade show of any kind ever held in North America Both of these shows their own ways give us a glimpse of whats to come what the com industry might look like for the next months Particularly at Comdex where most of the products on display are pro totypes and wont actually be on sale for six to months This years shows like most vears had a particular feel them This years feel was both more friendly and more com petitive computers that will be more friendly to people and com puter companies that will com pete more than ever for con sumers attention What is a computer Basically its a computer that is very powerful but that is easy to use that will be more intuitive and that will take less training and specialized knowledge This is not a new trend its been hap pening for years in a quiet sort of way But the momentum is definitely picking up and there was a feeling at this years shows that the computer vendors that cant keep up with this trend will fall by the wayside The theme was picked up by Bill Gates multi billionaire and cofounder of the Microsoft software company who gave this years keynote ad dress at Comdex The title of his talk was Information at Your Fingertips Gates described a world which people would use computers are as they now use a telephone a calculator or an electric typewriter He described computers hat could recognize letters and words to save typing and he describved word processors that you could speak into so that you could have your comments at to a letter or memo without ever having to touch a keyboard His vision of the future is that people will finally be able to harness the power of the com puter without becoming com puter experts And Gates had a dire warning for the computer in dustry either shape up and start delivering on this vision or realize that the computer in itself will stop growing The key to Gates vision is soft ware powerful software that will be easy to learn and easy to use The amazing thing is that most of the things he talked about were actually being demonstrated in prototype form at this falls computer shows Bill Gates vi sion of the future may be only a few years away Farmers should support lobby groups By ROB SAVAGE Toronto Bureau Thomson News ice TORONTO The Ontario government is committed to the idea of having all farmers pay support to farm lobby groups Elmer Buchanan said Monday Buchanan the Ontario minister of agriculture and food told a luncheon audience of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture that all farmers who benefit from lobby groups efforts should make payments towards such groups I intend to work with your organization and the Ontario farm community develop a system which does provide stable funding for lobby groups while recognizing the historical ty of general farm organizations within the province Buchanan said Details of how the system would work still have to be- developed Buchanan said However he said the system would support more than one lob by group Not all members would be required to join a particular group such as the OF A he said It is important that stable fun ding not become a divisive issue for the farm community at this time The fee to each farmer would likely be about annually a committee studying the idea said earlier this year ees to lobby were among a number of issues ad dressed in a speech to the OFA Buchanan said his government will also be looking at en issues and other challenges About delegates attended the first day of the OFA con ference in Toronto on Monday The conference runs until Wednesday NDP Premier Bob told convention delegates Monday that his government the importance of agriculture The agriculture industry has been in a recession for many years said in a speech and his government wants to see the situation improve Decisions about issues such as landfill sites wont be made without consider ing the impact on rural com munities he said Its the country rural areas thats been seen and sees itself as the dumping ground for the ty Rae said So the solution has to involve everybody also said his government recognized the tens and tens of thousands of jobs in the food production business The NDP government said wants to do more than simply ensure the stability of existing farm in 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