Re: Greed, stupidity, arrogance ... and revenge ...

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

Date sent:              Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:01:02 -0500
From:                   Dude VanWinkle <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>

> What about our friends accross the oceans?

Lots of little devices, on buoys, self-righting (self-righteous?), with solar panels?  
All the ships at sea?  Balloons/other lighter-than-air craft?  Lots of small, solar 
powered aircraft?  Lots of possibilities.

> Dont get me wrong, the idea of doing away with the Bandwidth Barons
> (telcos) is appealing, but who would pay to send up the satellites

1)  Companies wanting the advertising/goodwill.
2)  Whatever analogue of broadcast media survives the shakeout.
3)  Companies/nations doing remote sensing/GPS and willing to provide links.
4)  Richard Branson.

> and
> man the call centers for the IT challenged?

Your local Linux user group  :-)

> I still think we would need a backbone (just not bellsouth ;-)

The more people throw the same (few) objections at me, the better I like the idea. 
 It wouldn't be everything, for everyone, right away, but I was using (what wasn't 
yet called) the Internet 20 years ago, and we've come a long way.

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