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To: Sleeper who wrote (9529)	5/18/1999 3:19:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

I didn't realize your name is Sleeper, until I took a second glimpse. I thought you were grading Harmon.

To: Sleeper who wrote (9529)	5/18/1999 3:43:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

Sleeper, It almost sounds like it could have been inspired by a post that I did on Sunday over in the SilkRoad thread: Message 9556586 I've excerpted and posted below a part of that message. It reads: ----------------------- Telestrategies puts on world class presentations, in my opinion. I've been to a number of them, mostly in Wash, DC. The first one I ever went to was in '89, or '90, I believe. Northern Telecom, at the time, was unveiling their Fiber World platform at a show similar to this one devoted to Fiber Optics and Broadband. SONET was just being unveiled too, at the time (was it a pre-ratification glimpse at the time?), replacing the top end boxes of the time which were rated at 1.8 Gb/s based on asynchronous T3/T4 aggregations. Fiber World was the flagship model that NT was promoting, the one that showed the future of cable TV networking consisting of shop-at-home conveniences, telemedicine, video conferencing, distance learning, with mock ups of shopping carts and various other cliche objects being manipulated in an animated way under the bogus control of remote control paddles. In effect, it predicted all of the things that Cable Modems are not only not being used for today, but ... ...which are actually against the current MSO's use policies to do so. So much for Fiber World and the cable TV visionaries of the Late Eighties and Early Nineties. These services were grandstanded then by the MSOs, and their vendors, like NT, as futures, favoring them over something else they hadn't even seriously considered to mention at the time, that being, the Internet. -------------- I suppose that somewhere in there you received an answer to your question, even if you had to read between the lines, and tune out some of the noise. I wonder how McLuhan would feel about all of what's transpired. Regards, Frank Coluccio