Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 18:29:15 +0200
From: "Anthony Atkielski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Message-ID: <007201bfe1e7$2b9b5b80$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| I know it's not very sexy to drop the blue-sky toys, but doesn't anyone ever
| work on improving and democratizing existing infrastructure instead of
| widening the gap between what people really have and what looks cool in the
| lab?
There is plenty of the former going on - not as much as could be done
perhaps, but there isn't none either.
But it would be a grave mistake to cease working on future developments
while waiting for everyone to be able to share what we have now - and
that's not looking form the perspective of those who already have and
don't want to be held back. If we insisted that everyone had ethernet
in their buildings before we took the next step forward, there'd be all
these buildings in parts of the world still having thick orange cable
dragged through them - but because network research and advances didn't
stop, much of the world got to avoid that step, and even the thinner
more flexible black cable - perhaps now much of it might even be able to
avoid cabling altogether.
This doesn't mean that we should stop assisting the rest of the world
until we have the one perfect technology, that would be absurd, but neither
should be be slowing down on advances just because some don't yet have
what we currently use - if we're good enough, they may never need to.
kre
