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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (36044)	10/3/2000 10:04:01 AM
From: Michael F. Donadio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

A very interesting compendium of articles on in Fortune Magazine about the future of the internet with the birth of broadband. It's implications for SUNW are obvious. This is the overview. I found the whole series of articles very interesting. ================================================================================================= The Future of the Internet By Brent Schlender fortune.com You don't have to be a poet or a historian to recognize that we're living through something that has happened only a few times in the past 10,000 years. Call it a metaphor shift. Once, metals defined profound transformations in human society--the Iron Age, the Bronze Age. More recently we've marked time by the emergence of new technologies--the Industrial Revolution, the Information Age. But this time the metaphor is neither a pure technology nor a physical object, though it embraces both. It is an idea. Welcome to the Age of the Network. Following on the older networks that have reshaped our world by tying us together over the past two centuries--railroads, highways, airports, oil and gas pipelines, TV broadcasting, the electric power grid, and, of course, global telecommunications--now comes the most protean and potentially the most powerful network of all: the Internet. In five years more than 200 million people have plugged computers into the Net, by far the fastest spread of a new communications technology ever. How did that happen? In one sense, you can think of the Internet as a culmination, the final curl on the whole infotech tsunami that's been building since the early 1950s. Before the Net got rolling, stand-alone computers were just number crunchers and text processors on steroids. Plugged into even a rudimentary network, however, they became communications devices of unparalleled power, which instantly changed the way we used them--and in turn began to alter in bold new ways how we work and live. Ultimately, though, the big idea represented by the Internet is just beginning to unfold. That's the simple premise of this special issue: We ain't seen nothing yet. Driven by advances in speed, capacity, and mobility--as well as by the functional mutations sure to arise when a communications system is both ubiquitous and always on--the real upheavals of the Network Age are ahead of us. We don't pretend to know precisely what they'll be. But for perspective on what's unfolding and glimpses of what may come, open a door and enter here. ================================================================================================= All the best, Michael

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (36044)	10/3/2000 12:11:51 PM
From: JC Jaros	Respond to of 64865

"U.S. Atty" cousin, Charles. There's a difference. <g> --- Hey, I don't have any problem with you or your parents using "Charles Tutt". They're the ones I negotiated the deal with in the first place ; buying the rights to your name -- or at least their possible claim of 'prior art'). --- Clearly though, Charles, if you go back a year or so on the thread, you'll read that I did in fact copyright "Charles Tutt" and "Charles Tutt SUNW buy points". I know you're a reluctant partner in this. I think you'll change your mind though about that once your share of royalties start coming in. -JCJ