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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TobagoJack who wrote (62790)	4/18/2010 7:38:20 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 218201

TJ, for a decade [and more] I have ranted about how the "digital divide" is not one of rich and poor but one of how useful cyberspace is to different people. <Hong Kong is one of the densest spots on earth. One wouldn't expect to see this level of price and competition across a country as broad and sprawling as the US, but one would expect it to be possible somewhere. Sadly, even something like 100Mbps is hard to come by in most US cities; 1Gbps is unknown, except to tiny specialty operators, even in a place like New York City. > Added to the four forces of the apocalypse, gravity, electromagnetic, strong and weak forces is the fifth and crucial force, consciousness, which brings the other forces and their wave functions into existence so that beach functions in the waves can be held and enjoyed. Your observation that Hong Kong is becoming the most wired place on the planet is just what I would expect and have expected. 1 Gbps for $26 is something the Angolans can wish for but not match. Same for megabit per second mobile cyberspace via OFDM/CDMA swanky little devices and larger devices now flooding the world. I have noted with great pleasure how you love your mobile cyberspace more than your gold. One is alive and going places, the other an atavistic artifact of a bygone barbarian era. China is persevering with their dopey TD-SCDMA which is evidence of the thinking which means they can't become pre-eminent. Japan did the same thing with their dopey PHS TDMA 1990s cellphones, though they did very well with it and still have the best mobile cyberspace in the world. But they buy it with their cash from Toyota and all the rest of their gadgetry rather than being the creator of it. China will remain an also-ran. China has simply resurrected the bad old days of Emperor in dynastic rule, but this time with the Kremlin owning ALL of the property, from Tibet to Taiwan and Mongolia and across to Islamicland, not to mention some shared economic opportunities with Russia. Wise and benign rule has at times had great success. Normally though, court intrigue and greed takes over and pretty soon it's back to the bad old ways of carnage and dissolution. My bet is that cyberspace takes over as ruler, not territorial tribal dominance hierarchies defined by rivers, mountains, oceans and firepower. People follow their money and their interests, family and friends, not MAD megalomaniacs in Kleptocrat Central. I have greater interest in you doing well and the boy in Beijing who gave Tarken-san a bone bracelet, than in Helen Clark's bludging in the UN, and the kleptocrats of Helengrad doing well. Cyberspacoids are natural allies against the depredations of their terrestrial 3D compatriots. ElM is bringing Angolans on-stream. Around the world, hordes are cerfing into cyberspace. Everyone wants fast fibre and megabyte wireless. Not everywhere can get it. Those places will be human nature reserves where tourists can go and see how humans once lived. Sort of like visiting gorillas in Rwanda. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make them think. You can give a chimpanzee fast cyberspace, free, and they'll still prefer to string the fibre around their neck as an ornament and use the screen to smash the skulls of opponents. That's the digital divide. People will migrate to fibre if the fibre won't stretch to them. Mqurice