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To: Richnorth who wrote (91470)	11/29/2002 6:19:15 AM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 116957

Don't be caught on the bottom of the asymptotem pole. That taboo-animal has a very ugly face. The makers of the Internet figured rightly that it would take off in popularity. It was thought out in 1968 or thereabouts as was TCP/IP. Later Cerf, Lee et al did some working out of network topologies and asymmetric delivery vs. underlying symmetric timing. It was all figured out fairly well technically for reliability. The M-Bone had much promise too. What hamstrung the net was the choke point of some of the technologies and the money available at the grass roots level. That and the lack of a broadcast medium to attract customers to the sites, which also lacked branding customer confidence, advertising and marketing smarts and a changing and interesting attraction for the customer. In short the sites did not know their market group. There were six major choke points that prevented real Internet growth commercially. 1. Last mile bandwidth deprivation and monopoly, 2. browser technology and database organization frustration, 3. machine display and sensory media stagnation and upgrade pathitis, 4. lack of a broadcast standardization technology layer and availability of this to small players - if and when 5. lack of understanding of media and sales techniques to customers. 6. lack of competitive operating system development and standards for transmission of information. 1. Bell prevents people from getting competitive access to hi speed internet. 2. the browser wars and lousy display techology and surfing tracking prevents people from keeping track of manifolds sites in with relatively simple programming tools. In short the interface is stagnant. Cookie harvests are a bore and should be trashed. They are not needed if server tech is good enough. 3. CRT technology is impoverished when it comes to entertainment technology. Expensive to upgrade. The PC lacks good IO, sound and broadcast animation capabilities. In addition the net connection is too impoverished to afford high definition full motion full screen sound and video. 4. Companies tried to use the network for an advertising medium, which it is unsuited for. The broadcast medium topology was not added to the net because of lack of speed, last mile monopoly choke, and lack of understanding of the need to standardize and co-operate on this non-commercially to benefit all. 5. Companies who did advertise to people were woefully uninformed of techniques of sales and media matters as prescribed by McLuhan and many advertisers for decades. In short they were incompetent and non Internet hip. 6. Lack of meaningful, easy to use alternatives to Microsoft meant many programming features would bever get added to software that people really needed to make their internet experience interesting. If everyone on the net had access to a 1.5 megabit per second guaranteed symmetric connection, or possible 2.4 Mb con and a 19 inch 1600 X 1200 screen, with Stereo sound and a multi channel broadcast layer across the net, then the entertainment and advertising value of the net would be multiplied by a huge factor. We need a 2 meg multi channel MBone that sells time to many local regional and national broadcasters. This should ideally use some hybrid UDP format that is semi-connection (ATM?)oriented at the highest tier levels to guarantee a good flow of data. Locally it could use UDP to be broadcast from the local ISP level to the leaf node. Some kind of data format has to be standardized to prevent balkanization of software formats and frustration of people using differing Os's and software. Something like the HTTP or RIAA has to be worked out. With an improved sensory channel experience the net would thrive a bit more. One of the chokes on the net is the data input block. Most people are not touch typists. This prevents participaction. We need to develop a breakout tool to get the data in that any klutz can use, short of dragon dictate 3000. I am sure some geeneeus can think it out. EC<:-}