(FATEC - 2000)ATTENTION, E-COMMERCE SHOPPERS: your

(FATEC -  2000)

ATTENTION, E-COMMERCE SHOPPERS: your days of being tied to the PC for your product needs may soon be over. In the near future, currently being envisaged by engineers, you'll go shopping via Palm Pilot, via TV with cable-modem hookup, via game machine, via intelligent refrigerator - via any means, it seems, other than a good old-fashioned desktop and keyboard.

A new kind of consumer is about to emerge as the Internet revolution spills over the edges of the computer revolution's territory. "The next wave is people who never wanted to buy a PC," says Barry Parr an analyst at International Data Corp. Even as early as 2003, analysts expect, a third of on-line households will be spending around $50 billion through non-PC devices.

Many of them won't even have to open a Web browser to go shopping. Internet-ready cell phones already have e-commerce capabilities. Sony's latest terminal for WebTV offers split-screen shopping, so you can buy Christmas gifts without taking your eyes off the tube. Excite Home's broadband cable service will launch an undertaking next year that lets you instantaneously buy the products you see advertised. Say you're watching a Pizza Hut ad when an animated stuffed-crust pizza floats across the screen; two clicks of the remote, and it's heading to your door. Excite Home already knows your credit-card details and address. Just sit back and wait for the calories.

By Chris Taylor
TIME, DECEMBER 27,1999

Assinale a alternativa que apresenta a palavra, extraída do texto, cuja formação com o sufixo "-ING" obedece à mesma regra gramatical de "being" em "...your days of BEING tied to the PC...", no primeiro parágrafo do texto.