> gatherings.) According to what I've heard, the City will provide T3 access
> to ISPs, most of whom have only T1 lines, rather than dial-up service to
> the public--thus avoiding the need for a big tech support staff. I suppose
What, hook up to the ISP via fiber so as to get web access??? I think
there is almost NO reason for the ISP's when the public realizes that the
fiber will give them DIRECT web access, and the ability to serve the web
from their own machines!
> they might also provide dial-up to business clients who need direct
> highspeed connections, but I'm real vague on the details. I do know that a
> friend who currently colocates her Web hosting server in Texas just bought
> a house in the Railroad District so that she'd be on the first loop of the
> AFN and would be able to run her server from home.
RIGHT!!!
> > The thought of a democratic web, filled with kids running home web
> >servers instead of paper routes, strikes terror into the hearts of
> >advertising agencies, corporations, and government politicians, much as
> >the web itself is scaring those in power in Europe! Already, ISP managers
> >have been convicted in court in Europe for allowing international
> >pornography, etc. to reach the average citizen.
>
> Another concern of opponents is that ill-informed local citizens will blame
> the City for the content their kids have access to. I hope our citizenry
> isn't that stupid. Ashland is a fairly sophisticated town.
Some will, some will...
> > Personal automobiles? Bah! There is a potential for selling half a
> >million automobiles by the mid 1950's, but only if you endow enough
> >chauffeur schools. (Major marketing agency study for Daimler Benz near the
> >turn of the century.)
>
> teehee! What? Drivers Ed in every high school! Who'd a thunk it?
If anyone said it would cost about 50,000 lives, more than World War
II, it would have never happened! Convincing them how it would save more
lives from better genetic mixing, (vs genetic inbreeding causing the Amish
problems,) to-hospital transportation, etc. would have been a Real Tough
Job!
Sure, there will be e-mail stalking, financial flim-flam schemes,
porno, and things that we have not even imagined yet. But we have barely
begun to imagine the benefits!
We need to understand that progress nearly always generates a pile of
dead bodies somewhere; we need learn to weigh that pile against the pile
of bodies accumulating from the lack of progress. (Hmmm... I've been
dancing between those two piles myself the past fifteen years due to
medical problems...) We did so decry space flight as unsafe after
Challenger, when on a per passenger mile basis, our space fleet was one of
the safest modes of transportation known to man!
Heads up! Statisticians at the Ready! Forward March!
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