Modems: 60 Years of Hooking Up

[Gert van Santen]

Op 22-2-2011 15:24, Tony Scharf schreef:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Gert van Santen<g.vansanten at chello.nl>  wrote:
>>
>> And then I started babbling on about how I was sure we would be
>> able to download with at least 100 kb/s within the next 5 years,
>> and how that would perhaps change the world...
>>
>
> Hasnt it though?

It definitely has - at least it changed mine! Think about how 
easy it is now to find information on words and other stuff for 
translation work (like I do). And that's only a small part of the 
changes in my world...

  I think about how much data Consume, process and
> transmit on a daily basis and its absolutely staggering.

:-)

> My band works almost entirely in shared digital space.  We get
> together for practices only once every month or so, but we are
> constantly exchanging data (we use SugarSync).
>
> With soundcloud, I record a 16 minute jam, and load it up in a few
> minutes.  In 1998...that would have just been impossible.
>
> And we dont even talk about printing CDs anymore.  There is just so
> little point.  Everyone just asks if we are on iTunes or Amazon MP3
> store anyway.

Exactly...

Gert
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