Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Mon, 6 May 1991 01:26:16 GMT From: Peter da Silva Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Decreasing Costs of Transmission Message-ID: Organization: A corner of our bedroom Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 336, Message 3 of 11 Lines: 23 goldstein@delni.enet.dec.com (Fred R. Goldstein) writes: > So we end up with less-concentrated offices. (And with offices in the > suburbs, housing can be farther from the city, causing creeping > suburbanization. Soon there are no farms left for a hundred miles. > Been to NJ lately?) That's a good point ... for places that have a reason for existing other than a concentration of workers. For places like Scenic Houston, whose only advantage is low property values (thanks to it being built in a swamp on the edge of some really nice country I'd much rather live in), this would be a nice change. A bigger problem is that this can only work for service jobs. The number of jobs that *create* wealth that can also be telecommuted is relatively small (I'm in one ... actually the service part of my job is the only part I *can't* telecommute!). The most important jobs (manufacturing) can't telecommute at all without major expense. peter@taronga.hackercorp.com