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To: ahhaha who wrote (18128)	12/21/1999 1:37:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

The ultimate message in your uplinked post, while I don't entirely agree with your overall hypothesis, is suitable for framing. I can draw on many experiences where bureaucratic processes within large organizations could corroborate its main theme. The disruptive qualities of having an abundance of bandwidth, however, is now seen as a means to remove much of this waste. <cough> Actually, the elimination of geographic distance factors through optical transparency is quite possible using photonic means. The main thing that we will see holding this back is upper- and middle- management in many situations. Their knees begin to knock when faced with not having to deal with many of the problems that distance creates. We'll see real progress when they figure out a way to make it more complicated. Thus, preserving the empires of personnel and other assets they've created over time.

To: ahhaha who wrote (18128)	12/21/1999 1:47:00 PM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

In some respects the web made us take a step back from the bloat because of the bottleneck at the modem. People stopped bragging about how many lines of code and started boasting how they got an 30k graphic to read at 8k. Having a connection that is 100x faster is going to put us back to the previous bloat mindset. There is something to be said for the elegant solution, the efficient use of resources. My industry was never very efficient at using resources, except perhaps back in the days of the glass plates. Now it's efficient again. If I do an all digital job the only garbage is in the recycling bin on the desktop. On the traditional photographic end of my business I can buy my photographic paper in very large quantities and I get a significant price savings, yet the cost per print remains the same because the waste factor goes way up....it took me years to figure that one out.