Who amongst us would deny the pleasure of bandwidth approaching infinity while the costs (i.e. energy dissipated) approaches zero?
I see such progress happening around all of us, every day. I may only implore patients. Is the depression associated with availability of radio computers somehow born in the desire to interconnect? Is there some magic spell of code that will suddenly provide for and endless stream of goodwill? No. It is simply the exercise of discovery that motivates our continued desire to freely exchange ideas. We are all plainly aware that as the density of open wireless devices increases on some natural curve that successful interconnects geometrically reinforce the facilitation of this exchange. To relegate that awareness to corporate organization alone and the tradition of concentrated capital flow with the bureaucracy managing risk against interest would deny the fundamental precepts born on the Internet. As an individual where your role is not in the field I humbly suggest that you focus on supporting the growth of the wireless community by voting with your access to capital. Would you prefer this burden be characterized as a tax or at the very least the responsibility of advancing policy? Our conversation bears truth that we've reduced our understanding of the physical world into relationships of 100 meter fuzzy spheres in their unchecked form. The mastery and mystique of technology, logistics, markets, capital and a global view take the course of time leisurely. This is hardly the beginning, nor nearly the end. Besides who amongst us would prefer to queue for a "customer service representative" when a quick glance points out that we should be chatting with our neighbor? -TJ >-----Original Message----- >From: Julian Bond >Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 12:37 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [BAWUG] Nicholas Negroponte (Wired Mag) on WiFi > >These days, when Wired do a whole print issue on a subject you know it's > >time to move on to the "next greatest thing". > >But then I spent a lot of yesterday evening wandering round all the WiFi > >sites. My perception is that the enthusiast activity has essentially >stalled. There was a great outpouring of thought 18 months ago and now >we're left with a lot of hard work and coding to bring all that into >reality. And it's not really happening. It would be sad if the BigCos >(M$?[1]) hijack WiFi and twist it to their ends just as we're on the >verge of having a critical mass of end users. > >That's probably going to upset the people here that *are* beavering >away. So I'm not belittling your efforts. Just expressing a bit of >disappointment. And you'll have to excuse me for not doing enough myself > >but my hands are full of other things at the moment. > >JB __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
