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Belated Happy New Year

By Phil January 14, 2008 1:09 pm

I just returned from an extended holiday vacation.  we continued our holiday break with an 8 day cruise to the Mexican Riviera.  It was a great break and a chance to spend some great time with my family as we all went together.

The interesting thing was that the ship we went on had 24 hour Internet access available throughout the cruise, both with on-board terminals and with wireless LAN support throughout the cabins.  The fact that I could connect (at very high prices) throughout the cruise was a new value and a real representation that Hyperconnectivity is really happening.

However, in the interest of family peace and relationships I decided not to avail myself of the opportunity to work all week and actually avoided logging on at all, so now I am back, reinvigorated and ready for the New Year.

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  1. I think that was “Project Love Boat” (seriously)

    Looks like you got some comments on your VSS posting. I look forward to you answering them (I am not an SMLT expert, but I know it’s been around longer than 2 years)

    If cisco has a weakness I think the raw nerve is in it’s proprietary hardware and endless revisions of “daughter boards”. Otherwise their product is “good enough” albeit too expensive.

    :)

    January 14th, 2008 at 9:34 pm by many

  2. Phil

    Happy New Year!

    Very interested to read your comments / anecdote. One of the biggest discussion points I have been having at home is the topic of hyperconnectivity as additional evidence for the increasing bifurcation of the haves and have-nots. Your comment on the pricing (calling to mind the phones you still see on airplanes) suggests that my own boundless enthusiasm for hyperconnectivity - accompanied with an increasing conviction that all devices will indeed be connected - needs tempering with the input from zones where it’s hard to be enthusiastic about the 21st Century as they are still living in the 19th (paraphrased from Klein, The Shock Doctrine, 2007).

    What are your thoughts on how Moore’s (and potentially Edholm’s) law will erode rather than extend this gap? Will the entry price for hyperconnectivity rise, or will it be offset with loss in quality, security, etc … making a sliding scale which echoes and obfuscates the widening actual gap?

    - Oliver

    January 15th, 2008 at 8:50 am by Oliver Luker

  3. The whole are a of the digital divide (and the overall technology divide) is a very interesting topic. Technology acceleration is both a challenge and an opportunity. For example, I was in a presentation by a Russian telecomm vendor that indicated that by 2011, 50% of Russian households would have broadband access.
    Another indication is the “One Laptop per Child” initiative that we are supporting with MIT that is taking the lower cost result of technology and driving distribution. And the Law of Bandwidth would suggest that the more basic application levels move out into the areas of the overall human population. The advent of cellular telephony in the third world is a great indicator that this impact is happening. On the other hand, the gap continues to happen…..

    January 22nd, 2008 at 4:38 pm by Phil

  4. Phil - I thought this post on The Hyperconnected Enterprise provided a nice touchpoint to our interchange.

    - Oliver

    March 3rd, 2008 at 7:53 am by Oliver Luker

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