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From: bakken@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Bakken)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Happy New Decade!
Message-ID: <16511@megaron.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 2 Jan 90 19:32:28 GMT
References: <9001010220.AA17906@world.std.com>
Reply-To: bakken@megaron.arizona.edu (Dave Bakken)
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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In article <9001010220.AA17906@world.std.com> bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
>
>Wide-area fiber-optic lines will be commonplace to all homes and
>businesses.  This will have been (surprisingly, to some) driven by
>AT&T (and others, phone companies, BOCs, MCI etc) entering the Cable
>TV business as operators, wiping out most current operators.

How I wish!!!  Think of all the work we could do at home in 
our 'jammies! But its going to be 2010 until even 5% or 10% 
of American homes have the ``last mile'' installed with fiber 
optics.  Or so I've read.
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