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To: George Gilder who wrote (1854)	7/24/1999 9:48:00 AM
From: WEDIII	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 5853

A Question For George-Telecosm Architecture. If we imagine the competing visions for the future of telecommunications as a linear spectrum, at one extreme we have a model where all of the intelligence is built into the network, and the peripheral devices consist of little more than a tin can and a string, and at the other end we have the Gilder model, where the network is dumb as a stone, and all the intelligence has migrated out to the most extreme periphery. Might the most efficient system be some hybrid of the two models? Aren't there any intelligence functions for which economies of scale would dictate greater efficiency from the placement of the device performing the function at some point within the system (perhaps even close to the periphery), and thus at a point where the device could perform the function for some number of end users, as opposed to the device having to be present in each and every end user peripheral? I understand why end user intelligence works for CDMA, given the CDMA end users ability (and limitation) to decipher those messages, and only those messages, intended for the end user.But does the same rationale necessarily obtain in every other end user function?