[ Ray Smith Wired article ]
>>It's a beautiful day here in Southern California. Driving back from my morning coffee, I took old 101 where traffic was moving at a snail's pace. Runners, walkers, bikers, skaters --- they were out in droves. After so much rain earlier in the week, it's not surprising everyone wants to catch some rays. Joining the mood, I put my top down, turned up the music, and found my mind wandering to the Ray Smith Wired article, wondering if we could find an update now that Stargazer has been scrapped.<<
Pat ~
Wish I had a route 101 to cruise, or 50 miles of the Mosel River Snake to Cruise for that manner. The Castles, Vineyards, Bridges, oh the sites. Trier, oldest city in Germany. A placard in the Market Platz says " Trier was here 300 years before Rome, let it be here 300 years after Rome". The Mosel, my backyard, W. Europe my playground.
Florida fills the background for visuial stimulation purposes. But does nothing to stimulate adventure, in driving to see the beauty around the next cruve. FLAT!
It seems that I have been battling cable Promoters on this thread since 2Q 96.
Back then I was promoting the fact that cable modems were no threat to ADSL, because of market penetration in the RBOCs vast wasteland of POTS, or in a world of 700 million POTS lines.
With ADSL/VDSL as the Band-Aid for 30years, until we all have FACT [ Fiber At Curb Today ] should we change POTS to DOTS Digital Old Telephone System?
Perhaps the rest here would enjoy that Ray Smith Wired Article:
Though Ray Smith, with his legendary vision of the future, has been quoted here many times in the past, there are a number of quotes that could be taken from this next peace.
So to settle my cable rants of the past I'll quote one here:
I hope you enjoy your Pacific Coast Cruise Pat.
JW@KSC
" Oh, for Christ's sake! This notion that cable companies are going to get 30 percent of the $100 billion telephone business, whereas we'll get only 30 percent of cable's $20 billion business - that's ridiculous. Bell Atlantic is not one business but 13 different businesses, most of them not subject to any real competition from the cable industry ".
Ray Smith, CEO of Bell Atlantic
hotwired.com |
