Re: FW: [>Htech] WSJ: Technology Races Far Ahead of Demand and the Wo rkplace

From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Fri Sep 27 2002 - 06:24:00 MDT


On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Emlyn O'regan wrote:

> Why didn't demand increase to match supply? I'm sure most of us could
> think of ten ways, off the top of our heads, to use massively excess
> bandwidth if asked. Some of them would probably make a lot of money.

If the entire world population was extropian, we'd be saturating all
available bandwidth.

> So where did this problem, the kind of problem that might stall a
> singularity, originate?

People are still a constant. Users don't innovate themselves, and are slow
to adopt novelties.



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