Scenarios

Consider the following senarios:

A Birthday Present
A mother browses through a wide selection of flowers from one of the dozens of on-line florists, and sends her son a bouquet for his birthday. Her son is in another country. While there, she completes a form identifying important dates (birthdays, anniversaries) that she wants to be reminded of. The store sends her e-mail messages to remind her of approaching dates.

Rock and Roll
A teenager has heard of a new album released by his favorite musical artist. He connects to an electronic music shop, downloads and listens to a few seconds of the music on the new album, likes what he hears and orders the CD.

See you later
A couple while planing a vacation connect to an on-line travel agency. Using an interactive system, they check their options for dates, times and airlines for their destination. In a matter of minutes, they select an itinerary and order the tickets, which are delivered the next day.

Ordering in
A project team is working late one evening and decide order some food. They get on the Internet, connect to a local food delivery service and browse through on-line menus from numerous restaurants, selecting items as they go. Once they complete their selection, they order the food, which is delivered (from multiple restaurants) within the hour.

What's News
An executive is on a business trip and wants to read the New York Times. Sheconnects to their electronic address and downloads the newspaper in seconds (including the crossword puzzle) and reads it on her PC

A dream come true
A new college graduate has landed a high paying job and wants to buy his dream sports car. He get on the net, finds a virtual organization providing information on all makes and models, complete with features, options, pricing, pictures and location of dealers. He spends some time going over the information and selects the car he wants..

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