From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Tue Jul 03 2001 - 16:14:25 MDT
Samantha Atkins wrote:
>
> Brian D Williams wrote:
> >
>
> > It's that considerable "sufficient investment in infrastructure"
> > that's the sticking point. The low ball figure I see is about 250
> > billion dollars. Whoever puts that up is going to want a
> > substantial return on investment, then of course there's
> > maintenance.
> >
>
> Huh? That figure is sufficient for several manned missions to
> Mars or for setting up an effective Solar Power Satellite
> alternative. What takes that kind of money to provide universal
> wireless connectivity?
>
I don't see why that number is hard to believe. There are something
like 100 million households in the US alone, how much would it cost
to get them universal access? $1000 per household in equipment and
labor? Actually installing fiber is more than that. But who knows, for
wireless you might be able to make it that cheap. That's $100 billion
dollars right there. Telecom is a sector of the economy that requires
a lot of capital...
-- Brian Atkins Director, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence http://www.singinst.org/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Sat Nov 02 2002 - 08:08:28 MST