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From: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy T. Beagle)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Revolutions and Fidonet
Message-ID: <60@sopwith.UUCP>
Date: 14 Nov 88 06:12:57 GMT
References: <621.23788C5A@isishq.FIDONET.ORG> <8811102118.AA12763@pinocchio.UUCP>
Reply-To: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy T. Beagle)
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In article <8811102118.AA12763@pinocchio.UUCP> bzs@PINOCCHIO.BERKELEY.EDU (Barry Shein) writes:

|Some say that the critical thing in making the auto revolutionary was
|committing to building roads for the autos to drive on. W/o smooth
|roads horse-drawn buggies seem a win over cars.

Roads happened because of bicycles, not cars.

|Now many are saying networks are to computers what roads are to cars
|(including the need to invest in infrastructure at a societal scale.)

The network is already there.  It is called the phone system.   Bringing
the digital out to the customer will help a lot.  Eventually, there may
be some kind of integrated voice/data/video/music/etc. system, probably on
optical fiber.  Two-way video or high-speed data gets expensive real fast
though, compared with ~3400 Hz voice lines.
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