Re: Telecom competition (was Re: ECO: Saying nay to doomsayers)

From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Fri Aug 02 2002 - 11:05:57 MDT


spike66 wrote:

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>
> Regular Expression wrote:
>
>> If more bandwidth is available to your computer, it will be able to
>> receive information (media) with greater information density. The
>> high-density media, while conveying essentially the same information
>> as its low-density equivalent, could in many cases be easier for the
>> average Internet user's brain to assimilate.
>
>
> Have you noticed you are too impatient to listen to
> television news any more? I have. I can read waaaay
> faster than the (admittedly attractive) anchor woman
> can talk. I can tear thru info a far greater rate than the
> old methods can dish it out. spike
>
>

The effect was especially bad when I was learning and using more
speed reading. Not just TV news but normal face-to-face
conversations were w-a-a-y too S-L-O-W. Of course people don't
take well do being asked to email me what they have to say when
I am right in front of them. :-)

- samantha



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