It's really murky because companies are so loathe to discuss this. This is a new model of shopping reality. The question becomes, what do people feel is right? Can't more openness be the order of the day?

Comcast is in the forefront of trying to use video-on-demand as a differentiator between cable and satellite.

Whether we know it or not, over the years, our notion of what goes on behind the scenes in the medical field is shaped by these shows.

Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality

Now, many public libraries want to lend e-books, not simply to patrons who come in to download, but to anybody with a reading device, a library card and an Internet connection. In this new reality, the only incentive to buy, rather than borrow, an e-book is the fact that the lent copy vanishes after a couple of weeks.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.