WHO IS SHE?
She lives in a rich, industrialized and digitalized country, which is not the country where she was born.
She has an interesting job which takes up much of her time, but not all.
Her job requires that she travel a lot world wide.
It is important for her to have fast communication with colleagues, collaborators and (boy and girl)friends.

SHE COMMUNICATES A LOT.
She likes listening to the radio while working.
She uses her home and office telephones to contact companies, and those colleagues and friends who have no email, and also those who never read their email.
She has an answering machine at home, in order not to miss any incoming telephone calls, especially from (boy and girl)friends.
The answering machine also enables call screening, a possibility which she employs especially in the evening.
She is thinking of purchasing a cellular phone, in order to be better reachable while on the move, and she has been thinking whether a pager might be a cheaper but good enough solution.
She does not want a car phone, because she considers it dangerous to drive and make a phone call at the same time.
Where ever she is, she uses her fax modem builtin in her portable computer to send messages and documents to anybody with a fax machine but no email.
She uses her home and office fax machines to send preprinted or handwritten documents, and to receive faxes.
She uses the post delivery service to send printed documents which are too large or too important to be faxed, and also to send videotapes and computer diskettes.
She uses parcel delivery services to send large and heavy parcels.
She uses courier services to send urgent documents, videotapes and diskettes.
She has never received or sent a telex or a telegraph in her life.
One day she received a telegram from a friend who was on the road in Russia.
She never sent a telegram herself.
She never used or saw a radar except on television.
She often used a shortwave radio receiver as well as a gps, while sailing at sea and learning marine navigation.

SHE IS ONLINE A LOT.
Where ever she is where there is a local area network or an appletalk network, she connects her notebook to it via either ethernet or appletalk, and once she is connected to the internet, she can work best.
When she is in her office, she reads and writes several email messages spread out over the day and the evening.
She is regularly creating and consuming home pages on the WWW.
She would like to take a holiday, so she would have time to visit the large list of WWW sites she collected during the past months but never had the time to read.
She used to read certain technical news groups, but not any longer, because it takes up too much of her time.
When she is at home or in a hotel, she uses ppp or slip to login on a workstation in her home domain.
Momentarily she is comparing internet access providers, such as compuserve and nisnet, which she wants to use in order to have more access points available, especially in overseas continents.
She is considering buying a palmtop such as the newton, because she finds her powerbook quite a load to carry.

SHE TRAVELS A LOT.
She bought a second rechargable battery for her powerbook, in order to be able to work longer while on the train between cities or on a plane on her way to another continent.
She is flying very often, usually with major air lines.
If she has to travel between different jobs and apartments in different cities, she goes by car.
It always takes her quite some time to find her way in new cities, and she wouldn't mind having a car navigation system.
If she does not have a lot of luggage or equipment to carry, she prefers taking the train.
Often, when she is in a lazy hurry, or if the weather is too hot, she takes a taxi.
She once lived in a city where one could take a water taxi.
In her current home city, there is one riksja, but she never took it.
If the weather is good, she likes to ride her bycicle.
She is sorry that she never learned to ride a horse.
She also likes walking, but often has no time for it.
Unfortunately there is also no time for hiking, which she would like to learn.
When she was young, she used to go out for boating and swimming a lot.
She does not like running.
Whenever possible, she tries to avoid taking a bus, because bus rides always make her nauseous.

SHE RELAXES A BIT.
At night, she often watches television.
She decided not to buy a satellite television
dish.
She decided to stick with the limited amount of channels available on cable television.
However, this morning she received a mail from the cable television company, in which they announced their upcoming video on demand program.
She also received a letter from a friend who was currently visiting Africa. She was quite amazed, because her friend wrote her that in every new village where she arrived all people knew within an hour about her, the new visitor.
The African people called it "la communication Africaine."