Comments on: Why Bandwidth Is the Oil of the Information Economy http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2008/08/01/why-bandwidth-is-the-oil-of-the-information-economy/ Gen Kanai's Mozilla weblog Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:29:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Altech http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2008/08/01/why-bandwidth-is-the-oil-of-the-information-economy/comment-page-1/#comment-97918 Altech Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:25:52 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2008/08/01/why-bandwidth-is-the-oil-of-the-information-economy/#comment-97918 Damn! I just typed a whole long comment and then the screen went funny when I hit the submit button. Is it in moderation or do i have to type it all out again? Damn! I just typed a whole long comment and then the screen went funny when I hit the submit button. Is it in moderation or do i have to type it all out again?

]]> By: bact' http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2008/08/01/why-bandwidth-is-the-oil-of-the-information-economy/comment-page-1/#comment-55218 bact' Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:50:14 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2008/08/01/why-bandwidth-is-the-oil-of-the-information-economy/#comment-55218 yesterday, my friend, who is a reporter, got a need to get 90 MB audio file from internet in late night. the only connection she has at that time/place via 36k dial-up modem. we think that it may be faster if i just download that, put in usb drive, and take a taxi to give it to her. (30 mins d/l + 1 hr taxi ... still faster than her 36k) in the end she somehow got that file without my help. but we talking about, this is probably a kind of measurement for bandwidth -- if you have a need of an amount of information that the telecommunication infrastructure cannot deliver it faster than normal transportation mode, this means you have a real serious problem in telecommunication infrastructure. yesterday, my friend, who is a reporter, got a need to get 90 MB audio file from internet in late night.

the only connection she has at that time/place via 36k dial-up modem.

we think that it may be faster if i just download that, put in usb drive, and take a taxi to give it to her. (30 mins d/l + 1 hr taxi … still faster than her 36k)

in the end she somehow got that file without my help.
but we talking about, this is probably a kind of measurement for bandwidth
– if you have a need of an amount of information that the telecommunication infrastructure cannot deliver it faster than normal transportation mode, this means you have a real serious problem in telecommunication infrastructure.

]]> By: John Allsopp http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2008/08/01/why-bandwidth-is-the-oil-of-the-information-economy/comment-page-1/#comment-53884 John Allsopp Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:53:16 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2008/08/01/why-bandwidth-is-the-oil-of-the-information-economy/#comment-53884 Gen, my image of bandwidth is more as the water/electricity/sewerage of the information age. While we <strong>depend</strong> on these things are we <strong>addicted</strong> to them? Addiction implies an unhealthy, and ultimately unnecessary dependence, which I think it is fair to characterize our relationship with oil as. But water, electricity, sewerage, these define the urban revolution of the last 150 years - long before any real dependence on oil, the urbanization of the world's population depended on at least clean water and sewerage, and then later electricity. In the same way as we can imagine a world similar to today, but with alternative, far cleaner power sources, but not a world like ours without clean water, sewerage and electricity, a world without bandwidth would be a fundamentally different world. Gen,

my image of bandwidth is more as the water/electricity/sewerage of the information age. While we depend on these things are we addicted to them? Addiction implies an unhealthy, and ultimately unnecessary dependence, which I think it is fair to characterize our relationship with oil as. But water, electricity, sewerage, these define the urban revolution of the last 150 years – long before any real dependence on oil, the urbanization of the world’s population depended on at least clean water and sewerage, and then later electricity.

In the same way as we can imagine a world similar to today, but with alternative, far cleaner power sources, but not a world like ours without clean water, sewerage and electricity, a world without bandwidth would be a fundamentally different world.

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