Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!isishq!doug
From: doug@isishq.FIDONET.ORG (Doug Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Revolutions and Fidonet
Message-ID: <669.237ED53A@isishq.FIDONET.ORG>
Date: 14 Nov 88 08:51:19 GMT
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 BS>From: bzs@PINOCCHIO.BERKELEY.EDU (Barry Shein) 
 
 BS>Some say that the critical thing in making the auto revolutionary was 
 BS>committing to building roads for the autos to drive on. W/o smooth 
 BS>roads horse-drawn buggies seem a win over cars. 
 BS> 
 BS>Now many are saying networks are to computers what roads are to cars 
 BS>(including the need to invest in infrastructure at a societal scale.) 
 
 
The more I think about it, the more I think that the telephone system, 
with its network of cables, operators and switching stations is a more 
apt metaphor. At first you had a bunch of small local phone systems that 
gradually became linked into a world-wide telecommunications network - 
that is just barely adequate for limited computer communication. 
 
=Doug 
 


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