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To: George Gilder who wrote (595)	7/7/1998 12:57:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5853

George, Your writings and visions of an all-optical, heterodyne- like, fiber sphere or info sphere have inspired, and in many cases reinforced, me and many others in the belief that somewhere over the rainbow (if I might borrow that term) we will actually come to see the emergence of such a platform. The arguments are there, but the physical implementations are lacking, and more frustrating than that, there are Manhattan Project-like initiatives underway to create even larger barriers to its fulfillment. Take a peak at the Full Service Area Network (FSAN) series of articles that exists in Telephony Mag's IP.net section at: internettelephony.com You'll have to click on IP.net on the left hand side of the page, and navigate your way to the June 29 articles. I found it somewhat interesting that they would label the new section IP Net, since everything there, as in other similar initiatives, is predicated on an ATM foundation to the end user location. Do you have any ideas, or notions, that you could share with us, as to how the break point to an all-optical outlook might occur, or what form of migration strategy could possibly turn this ATM/electrification momentum around to the point that a new optical direction is established? In other words, what will it take to see the break point occur? Your time on this would be greatly appreciated by all, I'm sure. Best Regards, Frank Coluccio

To: George Gilder who wrote (595)	7/7/1998 1:07:00 PM
From: Jerry in Omaha	Respond to of 5853

Mr. Gilder, I posted Mr. Walker's link to Michael S. Malone's article on #Subject-20640 where the following exchange ensued. Submitted for this thread's consideration. Ghunk posted; "I feel like I just endured a techno-philosophical whirlwind tour through Plato's cave. But in the end the article's POV is metaphorically more likened to an alcoholic sitting at a table, halfway through a bottle of fine Scotch, ruminating on the inevitable consequences of his disease, even as he puts the bottle to his mouth. He will not put lifestyle meat to the bones of his words." To which I replied; "Rather than a dipsomaniac in Plato's cave I suspect Malone is a stone sober scribe in a cold cell contemplating the effect the printing press is about to have on his craft and career. It seems it is not the fascistic features of technology he is railing against, it's all the gushy coverage gee-techno-whiz is getting in the press. Journalists are bloody suspicious and back-biting jealous about this world wide web and its tricky sticky net full of implications of their immanent demise; the elect devoured alive by the incessant clacking jaws of the paranoid posting preterite." FWIW Jerard P