1.   Apple believes that flat screens are the future.

2.   Apple also said it was adopting a build-to-order strategy a la Gateway Computer, and unveiled a new flat screen monitor.

3.   As prices for flat screens drift downward, designers and architects are grappling with other ways to make them look like natural parts of the scenery.

4.   As the technology evolves, it seems the viewing public is getting closer to a three-dimensional experience via a flat screen.

5.   A flat screen bloomed out of a compact, domed base.

6.   A flat screen mounted on a wall and linked to the device will pour practically everything, from office information to movies, into the home of the future.

7.   But now, more than three decades later, flat screens that can match or beat regular TV sets and computer monitors are finally arriving.

8.   But Sony has lagged behind many of its Japanese competitors in the development of flat screens that might one day replace the bulky cathode ray tube.

9.   But on those machines, the computer itself hugs the back of the flat screen, creating what looks like a reverse beer gut.

10.   Clearly though, flat screens are where the future of television and computer displays lies, Sobel said, and eventually the flat will take over.