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Thirty-six months, predicts Terminator director McG: By then, any content you want will be available on your choice of screens, from the one in your pocket to the 100-foot-long version at your local multiplex. That was one message our May cover subject delivered to an audience of media insiders and Fast Company readers (invited via our tweet-stream, @fastcompany). See video of McG's remarks -- plus photos on the making of Terminator Salvation -- and add your comments at FastCompany.com.

The Doctor Is Online

Chuck Salter's article, "The Doctor of the Future" (May), had more information about the medical system and the potential improvements that are available than any other discussion I've seen recently.

It mentions the practical economic issues that prevent some of these excellent ideas from being adopted. To over-simplify into one sentence, the solution is to have people who want medical care sign up with some group that would be responsible for all their medical care, like the VA or Kaiser Permanente. I get treated by the VA and have found that I cannot get treatment as good privately as I do there. I understand there are committees in Congress that are working on Obama's program to "improve" medical delivery in the United States. I know that lobbyists are overloading them with pressure. At 88 years old, I'm not skilled with the Web. I wonder whether sending a copy of this article to my representatives might not be very effective.

John Doering
Salinas, California

I have been doing e-medicine now for 10 years but remain skeptical about long-term success. The problems are both massive (the presumption that care should be free and universal) and minute (protectionist laws about e-health practices). I worry that these models become virtual urgent-care clinics without support or vision for prevention.

Dr. Steven Tucker
Singapore

Great article about the "doctor of the future." I am a young orthopedic surgeon in suburban Chicago, and over the past year, I have dedicated my spare time to running a Web-based business that allows medical students and residents to post their properties for sale or lease, free of charge. Two ingredients form the foun-dation of this business: one is the predictable turnover of medical students and residents; the other is their interest in helping out a fellow doctor-in-training.

Dr. Rahul R. Gokhale
Lisle, Illinois

The proprietary-business-model-dominated market is creating a digital divide in the ability to leverage electronic health records for quality improvement and cost reduction ("$19 Billion for What?"). The root cause is high cost and a poor track record for inno-vation, user acceptance, and interoperability of prod-ucts of the legacy-software business model in health care. What is needed is an open, collaborative approach driven by clinical and finan-cial evidence. We at World-VistA have been promoting this paradigm shift for eight years.

Joseph Dal Molin
Vice President, WorldVistA
Toronto, ontario

Bad Deal

Full Tilt Poker ("The 100 Most Creative People in Business," June) is a virtual poker card-room service that is not engaged in the business of betting and wagering. The company is licensed by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission, and in the United Kingdom by the Alderney Gambling Control Commission. Players can download the software and play for fun or real money where online games of skill are permitted by law.

Michele Clayborne
EMC-PR
(on behalf of Full Tilt poker)

Editor's note: We did not intend to imply or suggest that either Chris Ferguson or Full Tilt Poker was engaging in unlawful activity.

Not That Fast

With regard to Garth Stein's assessment of Seattle as a center of technology ("Fast Cities: Seattle Grace," May): While Bill Gates and Paul Allen may lay claim to a lot of things, they can't lay claim to have written the first BASIC programming language for a computer. That was written by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz at Dartmouth College to allow nonscience students access to a computer. Allen and Gates did write a BASIC Compiler for the MTS Altair 8800, which was widely recognized as the spark that led to the PC revolution.

Carl Razza
Flemington, New Jersey