> Wow, someone had a bad weekend..... > > It would take six years for some companies to get round to thinking > about broadband radio, and then another six to see whether the memory > loss suffered by their staff was due to their mobile phones or the > microwaves from their desk. > > As for the internet being banned....isn't there way too much money to > be made by commerce for that to happen?
Tongue in cheek true, but we already seem to have an agreement that xDSL will have passed by that time and it isn't even up and running yet. Given the rate at which I have to replace not so cheap programmes because I cannot read any longer the messages that people send me, using the latests fads, I doubt that cost will be the inhibitor for new ideas. MSWord 6 does everything I need. I only need MSWord 97 because I get messages in that language, from people who really don't need it either. My 6 months old IBM Aptiva is outdated but I am told not to buy anything before next summer when everything it does, will be put on a single chip that will be available for about $250. The PCs with the whirley bird antenna and modems have been at trade shows for the last two years. No, my friend, I had an excellent week-end and the world is still turning around as it should. It is just that we have to get out of the mind set that a new product has a life time of more than a year. Hence my somewhat provocative statement. The implications this short lifecycle has on "approvals" are enormous and I don't know how regulatory systems are going to keep up with it. I agree that banning the internet does not appear to be a viable solution, certainly not where governments are vying with each other to make their nations the "most connected" nation in the world through incentives or lack of disincentives. That probably means that they'll endeavour to download more regulatory practices on the private sector, cause they can't cope, or give up on trying to regulate the phenomenon hoping it will regulate itself. Ciao, Vic Boersma
