From: Tom Sparks <[email protected]> Subject:
>> From: "Onno Meyer" <[email protected]>
>> The difference between that and the internet as we know it is simply a
matter of scale and search engines.
>> But to provide a wealth of content, you need people who write it to start with!
>> I believe the limiting factor will be content producers, not bandwidth. By
>> the time you have a Blue Planet Wikipedia, the hardware will be no problem
any more.
> Historically, bandwidth has always lagged behind *desired* content.
but bandwidth has shown us new content, so we demand more bandwidth
an example: teletext to telnet to Gopher/BBS to HTML to youtube
Yes, that's another mechanism that drives the demand for more bandwidth.
> Even today, high quality video phones aren't feasible without expensive
dedicated links.
most if not all people are happy with 320x240 or 640x480 video sizes
I'm talking about an SD-quality TV picture with no compression
artifacts. If it was remotely that presentable, we'd be seeing it on
Vonnage commercials.
> Telepresence and other bulk surveillance will expand to fill any reasonable
capacity shared bandwidth.
telepresence is time-depended
Yes, it is, meaning every piece of teleoperable equipment (which is
anything that moves itself or is fixed in place that involves a skill
roll to use) is going to need a decent width connection that can be
prioritized and un-multiplexed at any time anyone associated with the
colony or homestead might need to use it.
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