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Eventually (soon I hope) internet connectivity will be truly like electricity. I wonder how many arguments there were 100 yrs ago about how device X or activity
by plg 13y ago
Eventually (soon I hope) internet connectivity will be truly like electricity. I wonder how many arguments there were 100 yrs ago about how device X or activity Y were useless because "what happens when the electricity goes down"?
Anyway it's a relevant argument today because as you say, we don't want the new "my dog ate my homework" to be "our internet went down and so I couldn't access my work on the cloud"
- auctiontheory 13y agoEventually (soon I hope) internet connectivity will be truly like electricity. I live in Silicon Valley, and based on my internet options (one sole unreliable option: Comcast), I have to say that we're far from the day that connectivity is like electricity.
- thirdsight 13y agoThis is not going to happen. Internet connectivity is a race to the bottom. Think of all the effort that has been put into delivering a fairly unreliable service over existing copper rather than implementing FTTP. Oh and then charging as much as possible for it.