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To: Moonray who wrote (17887)	12/4/1998 11:24:00 AM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 22053

Ya pays for your thrills I guess. If you believe Guilder, the price/megabit will trend towards 0 over time. However, I'm old enough to remember technologists predicting electricity so cheap no one would bother to meter it.

To: Moonray who wrote (17887)	12/4/1998 12:41:00 PM
From: jhild	Respond to of 22053

Interesting article. But this is the opposing force to metered usage, which can be pretty formidable: "That would be a counter-cultural nightmare on the Internet," he said. I can really hear the angst of these telecommunications companies that have been so used to their monopoly practices, that they are in fits trying to get it all back in the bottle so they can charge by the minute again. I think there is real fear there.

To: Moonray who wrote (17887)	12/5/1998 6:26:00 AM
From: Bill Ulrich	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22053

Moonray, re: flat-rate Internet getting crushed The most glaring omission here is that A/V and Image compression technologies are not reaching their peaks. The same video stuff I was doing a year ago at 6.5 MB: magneticdiary.com …can now be pulled under 3 MB with newer codecs. A year from now—maybe 1.5 if the pace continues. Interesting that they apply Moore's Law to a 'problem' situation (increased usage), instead of a 'solution' situation where it was earlier presented (processor speeds). Codec advancements (another 'solution' situation) will continue in similar fashion. Wherever there's a 'problem', there's always a bunch of engineers in cubicles, with Nerf toys, trying to solve it. Did Sidgmore lose his optimism hanging around with 'suits' all day long? And hell yes, a counter-culture nightmare would happen with metered net usage. If this did come to pass, content geeks might switch back to disc-based projects via DVD, using the web only to provide updates. Frankly, I don't see flat-rate net getting crushed—article was much ado about nothing. Didn't somebody kill the flat-rate thing a year ago, and then re-instate it due to the outcry? (attworldnet? - memory fuzzy here) -MrB