In 1992 a futurist, who's name I've long forgotten, came and gave a talk to Microsoft Canada's national sales meeting. During his talk he made outlandish claims such as this one — "a day will come when will be faster to boot your PC from a networked server halfway round the world than a local hard disk".
Mark Goldberg asks which Canadian ILEC will step up to the plate and deliver fibre to the home. As he points out, it's hard to know in the current "financial engineering" climate. Most of us will be doomed to 6 megabit DSL for some time to come. The world of Peter Löthberg's mum seems a far off fantasy for Canadians. She's got a 40 Gigabit connection to her house (it's a demo) that has the Swedes agog. Imagine, my Canadian brothers and sisters, being able to "flick through 1500 high definition channels simultaneously, or download a full high definition DVD in just two seconds."
… or boot your PC from a server halfway round the world.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
