[10934] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Schenectady [was Two-way Internet service]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dick St.Peters)
Tue Mar 15 01:40:39 1994
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 94 20:14:42 EST
From: stpeters@bird.crd.ge.com (Dick St.Peters)
To: kwe@cerf.net
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Reply-To: <stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com>
>From kwe@cerf.net Sun Mar 13 21:55:21 1994
>I suggest that if some coalition in Schenectady were to get together, build
>some local infrastructure and attach to the national infrastructure through
>a couple of local PoPs, Schenectady could become part of the information
>infrastructure at bandwidth commensurate with Cambridge or any other metro
>area.
>
>There are certain to be advantages for Schenectady over other metro areas
>(lower priced homes, less traffic, better schools?) I'd like to see
>Schenectady, Aspen and Nantucket join the infrastructure. I'm glad San
>Diego is already plugged in. :-)
>
>Seriously, in future the global information net will be global but still a
>sparse matrix. However, there is no reason that smaller metro areas can't
>become players and I am sure that many will. I seriously predict Aspen as
>one of the first, since so many info professionals have already relocated
>there and conduct business today with fon, fax, FedEx and planes.
Kent, Schenectady is one of three small cities that anchor a metropolitan
are of 875,000 people that was the birthplace of PSI. While the metro
area will win no honors for size, its place in the Internet infrastructure
history is already pretty secure.
Due to a quirk of geography - a river impossible to cross during rush
hour - I can see farmland and orchards less than half a mile away across
the river outside my office window, but Schenectady isn't exactly rural,
not by my standards at least. Rural is up with Russ Nelson and his cows,
another 100 or so miles north of here - or even more, a lot of the very
sparsely settled land between us.
Aspen's not rural either, but Nantucket, well, you're getting close ...
--
Dick St.Peters, Gatekeeper, The Pearly Gateway; currently at:
GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com
