markopoleo
join:2003-04-02
Bonne Terre, MO
 ·Charter Pipeline
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Re: pretty soon
said by Jerkface  :pretty soon the internet will be connected to every waking part of our lives in ways we can never imagine: Television, Microwaves, EVERYTHING will be connected to the internet. Think about this: in a couple years, when people are talking about building a house, they'll be running power and fiber optic cabling throughout the entire house to connect everything imaginable! Its not too far away guys  Oh, and to get to the 30% that have no use for the internet: Technology is the future, plain and simple. If you don't catch the wave, you'll miss it :P You are far from reality, not pretty "soon", more like 22-50 years from now. You think every home is just going to up and get connected soon? dream on :P
Fiber in the home is not near ready for the average home, heck you don't even see it in majority of multimillion dollar homes now. Granted prices are going down, but you need it to equal the cost or wiring today a typical house to see it start to become popular. Once you see it hitting the $100k price range houses is when to get excited.
But onto the same point, no applications exist today that would even use that bandwidth that a normal cat5 wire can't handle so far.
I don't find it hard to believe %30 don't have internet, lots of people don't NEED it. |
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Topmounter
Sent By Grocery Clerks
join:2001-02-20
Evergreen, CO | I don't even own a microwave. |
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fiberguy
My views are my own.
Premium
join:2005-05-20
| reply to markopoleo
"Fiber in the home is not near ready for the average home, heck you don't even see it in majority of multimillion dollar homes now."
Yea yea.. bla bla.. the same thing was said about broadband in general. in 1998 when DSL really started to become popular at $89.99 a month for 256 maxing out at 1.5, no one thought that it was be up to 6mb in a short time either. No one thought cable would be pushing 16 meg / 2meg... BB has only been around for about 8 years in reality and look at where we are.. so please, tell me.. how can you be so sure that it will be 50 years..?
..and no one really "needs" the internet. If they did, it would be classified as a utility.
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Corehhi
join:2002-01-28
Bluffton, SC
| reply to Topmounter
I don't own a cellphone and have never used one. I have no reason to be that in touch with anyone, if they want me , they have to find me.
BTW When I was single cellphone weighed 4 lbs. LOL. If I was dating I would have a cell phone.
Many people have no use for the internet. 10% of the people in the US are probably retarded anyways. |
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Jerkface
join:2005-06-05
Washington, NJ | reply to fiberguy
you took the words out of my mouth, fiberguy. If i had the time to type more today, thats what i would have written |
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