What does VTX stand for?

Who could have imagined the emergence of interactive computer-based online technologies (such as videotex, electronic auctions and email), satellite-delivered digital audio broadcasts, mobile communications breakthroughs and new social media that permitted new information services for agriculture?

Meanwhile, two goals will remain unchanged, with the penetration rates of 100M fixed broadband network and emerging videotex services reaching 80% and 50%, respectively, by 2015.

In the 1970s, more than a dozen dailies were playing around with something called videotex.

Worldwide Videotex, publisher of Worldwide Telecom, will be an official media sponsor at the ground-breaking new conference "Professional Services Automation 2001" to be held November 8-9 in San Francisco, CA, at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco.

VIDEOTEX - Another salutary warning about trying to predict technology.

Before coming to the newspaper industry, Bruner spent nine years in the telecommunications industry, developing new products and services for new media platforms -- including audiotext, videotex, CD-ROM, interactive TV and the Internet -- and five years in the computer industry developing new products and user interfaces, including early on-line applications.

Graziplene 2000: 123) Teletext, although inexpensive or even free to viewers, was essentially a one-way service; so its usefulness for financial transactions was overshadowed by a similar system, videotex, which was more expensive but both provided the instant data and allowed for two-way communication (Graziplene 2000: 20-30).

Newspapers, magazines, trade journals, authors and even college professors gushed about how the new videotex systems would change the world.