[10853] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Two-way Internet service from Continental Cable?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dick St.Peters)
Sat Mar 12 15:33:21 1994
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 94 12:30:44 EST
From: stpeters@swan-song.crd.ge.com (Dick St.Peters)
To: marty@psilink.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Reply-To: <stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com>
> (2) While the target marketplace for the individual service is information
> workers (who are possibly subsidized by their companies) and net-weenies
> (like myself, who might substitute more carbohydrates and beans in their
> diets over meat to afford it) the real short term impact is SMALL BUSINESS
> (and possibly Medium size business's) who want meta-Broadband connections
> today.
Amen.
> Given the growing distributed information economy there is the capability to
> even the playing field a bit with respect to the small business have-havenots.
>From one perspective (size), yes. From another (location), it tilts
the playing field even more steeply. The networking that was supposed
to free people from the need to concentrate in urban areas is turning
into just one more business necessity not available in the countryside,
one more reason why the rural poor won't see many of the new jobs.
--
Dick St.Peters, Gatekeeper, The Pearly Gateway; currently at:
GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com
