From: Michael Wiik (mwiik@messagenet.com)
Date: Fri Aug 02 2002 - 12:26:08 MDT
"Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com> wrote:
> 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.
As an independent web developer who works almost exclusively out of my
home, I can agree with this. I still use a 56k modem though most of the
studios I work with have T1 connections and I could afford a DSL or
cable modem connection easily. Personally, there just isn't that much
compelling content out there. Professionally, *someone* has to regularly
view the output over a regular modem, since that is how the majority of
the intended audience will see it, and the old adage about if you want
something done right applies here.
That is why some companies who shall remain nameless but may suggest
shaving utensils and water-borne life in their names and are featured on
fuckedcompany.com and are the target of anecdotes on Slashdot such as
'They asked me about directory structures, and I was like, 'Hello?' I'm
an *Information Architect*, not a Knowledge Engineer!' end up doing
stuff like designing 300K homepages for major online service providers
with millions of subscribers that get redesigned after a couple months
since most subscribers are still at 28K (this was 1998).
And they got $hundredsofthousands for this. (sob)
-Mike
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