On AD 2008 April 17 Thursday 02:49:51 AM -0600, Chris wrote: > Yes, fiber will probably go far by today's standards. But who can > predict what will come along in two or three decades? If you think > you can reliably predict which as-yet-invented networking technologies > we'll all be using ten years hence, let alone twenty or thirty, I > submit that you are kidding yourself. :-) My own self-deluded > prediction is that those technologies, whatever they may be, will make > landline fiber-optics look like 9600 baud modems. And yet we'll still > be making payments on UTOPIA bonds.
Because fiber may be outmoded in the next 20 years is a rather silly reason not to adopt the technology. Besides, perhaps the guy who comes up with the concept of hyperecoding narrow band radio waves will get his idea from the existing fiber signaling methods. UTOPIA's financial situation is rather bad and that is unfortunate, not because it's UTOPIA, not because the name UTOPIA insinuates socialism as the UTA would have us believe, but because it's the next generation technology. Justin /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
