"Imagine people buying boxes and putting them on top of their houses and those boxes organizing themselves into networks that can blanket a metropolitan network," Shepard said in an interview at the conference. "Everybody would own their own piece and as long as you were working across the metropolitan area it would be entirely end-user financed — some people say free."
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Another plagiarist on the loose! Walt, sprinkling photovoltaic powered nanoboxes by air does the trick better and cheaper. But his will be a good interim step.
Part of the problem he describes, where the increasing number of boxes increases the signal to noise ratio, can be fixed by geographic management. Go north for hagfish related information, west for telecommunications stuff, over that way for people, midway for people catching hagfish using cellphones. Similar to brain layout - vision at the back, pondering at the front, left arm management at the right, listening with the left ear there, memory of dentists and bullies in the dark cupboard close to the adrenaline supplies.
A brain has a similar problem = how to store and communicate a bunch of information using a crowd of simple little neurons which are only on or off.
It isn't surprising that a few simple little quarks organize themselves into a few simple little carbon, oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen 'atom clubs' which spiral together into DNA which tells cells how to replicate into you by eating icecream and drinking beer with a multivitamin pill to make up for any nutrient gaps and that a similar arrangement would be a good way to make a world scale model. We can't just have these boxes firing at random all over a metropolitian areas, linked by optical fibre to distant centres. That's like epilepsy! VERY high signal to noise ratio.
So we get some input on Ericy, which goes to the 'sleazeball listings' department, which comes up with a pointer to the hagfish department and recommends checking the dark cupboard. Money management is scanning the input noise and detects dollars so starts calling in the pondering police. For now, baseball and babes don't enter the busy chatter between those other departments, but they watch a few keywords passing around in case a babe is called for.
In the great collective subconscious [I disagree that it should be unconscious, though that is the official word] the buzzing continues on other things while the Ericy hagfish catching is sorted out. A high price is attached and we are open for business.
Also, George Gilder isn't really saying what can be done now in the way of "Keep a good lookout, don't shout or fart and you can drive your nanobox on any frequency you like", he's talking about what's possible instead of the frequency management rules used at present. Which will need the development of software radio, with fast chips, huge solid state memory, and all the drama.
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Anyway, GG can't be all that eminent if he spells 'Irwin' as 'Irving'. He's obviously dyxlexic. Let's kick him while he's down [and not here]!
Ramses' Curse seems to be in effect too! Q! low for the day of $57. I recommend a few boots for him too. Wasting time in Bangkok trying to singlehandedly rescue their economy when there are WWebs to build.
How about those Gallium Arsenide power chips - 30 million sold. There won't be a big lead time either, so that must be how many cdmaOne handsets have gone through factories
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Thanks Jeff, great find!
The Winning prediction of 23,141,593 cdamOne handsets in operation at the end of 1998 must be about right! There must have been huge pre-Xmas sales. Japan selling heaps too. And Korea. Hong Kong's price war helping. Peru, Canada, etc etc.
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