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...very difficult to tell what technologies are going to prove important in the long run. If priority had been given early on to Gopher or WAIS (two information search technologies which have gone the way of the Dodo and the 8-track), the web might never have had enough bandwidth to gain traction. Some people occasionally find end-to-end frustrating, and sometimes quite reasonably so. Certain traffic, it seems, really is more important. In the late ’90s, when Napster entered the scene, it was so efficient at music swapping that academic uses of limited university bandwidth...
...slow recovery. Relatively few of the promised federal help centers to coordinate assistance have been opened, while some local officials have struggled to get contracts for cleanup projects approved in Washington. Numerous victims of Hurricane Katrina have had trouble applying for assistance, whether online or on the telephone, though bandwidth and staffing have been greatly increased in recent days. One of three Carnival Cruise Lines ships that was chartered to house thousands of relief workers and possibly evacuees for at least six months, at a cost of around $220 million, was still docked in Mobile, Ala., most of last week...
...YOUR AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND PUT IT OUT YOURSELF? Wait and see. It's still chapter one for Amazon. I think there'll be more happening on the Internet over the next 10 years than in the last 10. Over the next decade, the raw materials--technology, computers, disc space, bandwidth--will get cheaper and more powerful at a very rapid rate. Our job is to figure out how to layer invention on top of those raw materials to make things that actually matter to people...
...SHOWING SHORT MOVIES ON AMAZON. WHAT'S THE LONG-TERM PLAN FOR AMAZON AND VIDEO DELIVERY? Over time it may be possible to do high-quality video delivery over the Internet. It's something we've thought about for years, but most people don't have the kind of bandwidth they'd need to get full-length motion pictures delivered...
...seeing a Broadway show, of watching the recently surging Yankees play ball in the Bronx. Instead, I’ve fashioned the archetype of a writer’s home, the idyllic place of no distractions. I have no TV. I connect to the Internet by stealing wireless bandwidth from my neighbors. I’ve even limited myself to a strict budget so that my diet consists of cereal, peanut butter sandwiches, and microwavable hotdogs...