From: Steve Massey (massey@loop.com)
Date: Mon May 28 2001 - 21:20:34 MDT
On Monday, May 28, 2001, at 12:12 PM, James Rogers wrote:
> At 10:36 AM 5/28/2001 -0700, John Marlow wrote:
>> All of this seems to assume that we're talking about today's landline
>> internet--which could indeed be faster. And also today's computers--
>> which could indeed be better.
>
>
> As I stated in the part of my post you quoted, this is only a
> limitation today and to a lesser extent tomorrow. There is no reason
> to believe this will not disappear as a problem in a relatively short
> period of time. However, while the time may be vanishingly small on a
> historical scale, it will seem like a long time to people living right
> now waiting for this capability to grow.
>
>
>> But what of tomorrow--when it is, and they are? And who says you
>> can't like a bunch of basement clusters together, even today?
>
>
> I think the question was whether or not the Internet could be exploited
> in its natural state, not whether a human engineered solution would
> work. Obviously a system explicitly engineered for the problem will do
> just fine as these things go.
>
>
> -James Rogers
> jamesr@best.com
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>
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