GM,Mark,
An interesting interview about communications, bandwidth, the future, dreams vs. practicality, and a good starting point for a weekend's reading.
iridium.com
<<"Our reason for existence is to help people understand that it is a useful exercise to think systematically about the future, even in environments where there's very, very high uncertainty," says Saffo, who concentrates on the long-term social and commercial impacts of new information technologies>>
<<And it's not just the industries. Our devices are also going through fundamental transformation. The thing on our desk that we call a PC is completely different than PCs ten years ago. And it's different in how we use it. Ten years ago, the devices were defined by what they processed for us; now they're defined by what they connect us to.>>
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<<The idea of using all of Yogi's Hippie Dream shared information is not bad,>>
Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida is on the stereo-smoke 'em if you got 'em.
Chopin's Opus 20 Presto con fuoco up next (I'm not a total hippie)<G>,
Yogi
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