From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Thu Aug 01 2002 - 15:40:08 MDT
To rephrase my recent comments in another, perhaps simpler,
way, the government (or telecoms) need to demonstrate to me
(before I support legislation, increased fees, etc.) how
drinking from the information firehose will qualitatively
make my life much better.
The internet era has clearly put any of us who are interested
in "intelligently" processing information into information
overload. For those who are not processing the information
from an "intelligent" perspective overload is still a problem
(how many sports channels do satellites now carry???).
I fail to see how the high bandwidth final mile will significantly
advance society, culture, or humanity as they currently exist.
Only when the end recepticles have a much higher bandwidth
than those currently in place (i.e. we have posthumanist
entities) does it seem to me that higher bandwidths will
be useful.
Robert
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