However, desired content must be produced. What percentage of
the internet users are producing massive amounts of content,
rather than just consuming content? Now scale that down to a
population of less than two million.
The scaling is not that simple. Your typical high-volume user here is
moving gulping a gigabyte a day and serving somewhat less in the form a
webcam, file sharing, untrimmed replies, and some pet thing like DJ-ing.
For each expensive colonist, you'll have zillions lots of cheap,
IP-connected sensors and effectors that need to be monitored and driven
remotely, because there's only so many places the colonist can go in a
day, and some non-cheap, high-volume ip connected nodes buffering this
for the colonists, like meteorology and logistical systems. Then, on top
of that, they are going to want a stream of as much of Earth's daily
content as they can get, for entertainment as well as reference purposes.
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Jeff Wilson - [email protected]
< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >
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