That all makes sense Arun. So imagine the value and monetizing to be created from the networking of 6 billion people in a globalized monster cyberspace.
The olden days of monetizing trade routes of camels and sailing ships among subsistence economy agricultural people, with only a few hundred million global population, and very few of those involved in significant networked economic activity, such as tea importing and cotton exporting, were small beer compared with now.
Now we have 6 billion of us, with not many involved in agriculture. Driving around France, USA, Canada, one can travel 1000 km and see few people slaving away in the fields. One might see a fleet of combine harvesters once a year.
Increasingly we are networked in a globalized economy with umpty million Chinese and Indians joining the fray, turbocharged with the biggest network ever, with huge value involved in it = cyberspace. And millions and billions of machines signing up to it too.
Monetizing that lot is the biggest thing ever. And it's just warming up. The nodes won't be physical locations such as New York. They'll be server farms, Cisco, Google, fibre operators and other toll gates to the realm. QCOM for example.
The idea of being within half an hour of somewhere will be redundant. I'm here. You are there. zenbu.net.nz is run from wherever our son hooks up his notebook, with a server centre providing the hardware and fibre, ADSL, CDMA etc providing the links. There doesn't seem to be a focal point. There's no advantage to be near a wharf, river junction, defensible mountain or hill, agricultural plain, centre of population, airport, manufacturing support infrastructure, government buddies etc.
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