Steve writes:
< It is also hard to give up "convenience", once habituated toit. I can
barely imagine tying up a hardwired phone line to get 300 or 1200bps
internet service today... I think I'd probably do without somehow. I
once walked, ran, rode my bike miles and miles to get where I needed to
go (school, work, etc.) but now that I have been conditioned to jumping
in a heated/AC car and driving 60-80 mph with a good quality sound
system and dozens of radio stations, hundreds of CDs ripped to the hard
drive and Bluetooth audio to allow me to chat with family and friends or
do some business or listen to a podcast, I'd have a hard time even going
back to driving 55 or having to leave my windows down to keep from
feeling a little hot on a warm day, much less live with my own singing
or a small handful of scratchy AM stations. >
There's no need to fall back to a 300 baud. Even a small community of ~ 20k
people can build a fiber optic network -- an example is my dad's town.
There's no need to drive 55 mph or even drive. High speed rail in China and
Japan exceed 200 mph. This is the shortsightedness and lack of imagination in
individualism: To deny or not even notice that many people have the same exact
needs you do. But I guess we will be routing money to clever things like
rebuilding the houses destroyed on coastlines from climate change.
Marcus
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