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To: KailuaBoy who wrote (19072)	1/19/2000 7:41:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

Hi KB, "What does broadband content mean to you? Have you ever seen any? Streaming video? File transfer? Is that all there is? I'm being serious. What do you think of todays content presentation with respect to what it could be?" I don't mean to become overly McLuhanesque, but my content may very well be your medium, and vice versa. My being a transmission fanatic, I suspect that this is probably the case. Content is as individualized and personal as the intrapersonal communications experienced by a prisoner doing solitary confinement. Where does noise end, and content begin? Sometimes that's like asking where hope leaves off, and hype begins. Okay, maybe the other way around. But that too is an individual call. Everyone will render their own opinion on this. Over broadband, noise 'appears' to be much faster than over wideband, which is faster than over narrowband, which is faster than Morse. You get more of it over broadband, and it's fatter in scope, but it's still only noise. I would caution folks never to knock noise, for in the absence of noise when a line is too quiet they tend to be fooled into thinking they've been disconnected. So they hang up the phone and disconnect, just the same. Noise has its place. The conveyance of substantive information, when it is meaningful (a quality also unique to each of us) is more fleeting over broadband than it is over the lesser three media, as well. This is because more of it flies by over broadband, and it flies by too fast. Combined, broadband media and information result in a quality known as mediaformation, the quintessential intersection of outside dynamics and thought, which usually has little, if any, shelf life at all. Except, that is, for the storage attributes of the brain. Unless you capture it in some artificial manner, in which case it's equally useless while stored. 'Being' wired is content. When your nine or twelve extraordinary senses that defy taxonomy are interactive with stimuli from afar, in a comprehensible way. ---- I know you are serious. So am I. I believe that within my reply are found both the reasons and the folly surrounding the creation of broadband systems. And if my reply seems flippant, I can assure you it's not. And if it turns out to be useless to you or anyone else, bordering on noise, then perhaps I've made at least "one" of my points clear. If folks disagree, then at least two. If you like, we can chip away at the above and see if we can salvage something that grows. Or we can relegate this reply to the useless state of storage, within the revolving archives of SI. Come back... Regards, Frank Coluccio