[TriLUG] OT: URGENT: H.129 to be heard in Thursday's Finance Committee!

[Chris Merrill]

On 3/15/2011 1:47 PM, Mark Turner wrote:
> Chris, in the cases of Wilson and Salisbury, the networks that were built are 100% fiber optic. For
> all practical purposes, the capacity of fiber optics is unlimited. These systems could easily serve
> citizens for over 100 years. They will certainly outlast the roads they're next to.

Maybe, maybe not.  It's hard to tell where technology will take us next.  Let's
not forget that a rather well-known technologist once said that nobody will
need more than 640k of memory in a PC.  How long did that prediction last?


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