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...MIT’s program will be those outside of Cambridge. By using OpenCourseWare, teachers can benefit from the expertise that has gone into crafting the MIT curriculum; education researchers can debate what topics should be included in standard courses; high-schoolers without access to quality instruction can download a syllabus and check out a textbook from a public library. Universities frequently spend millions in public-relations gestures to demonstrate the benefits they offer to the outside world; OpenCourseWare could be far more effective in promoting learning at far less cost...
...Perhaps nowhere has technology made a more dramatic impact: Nemeth marvels that his friends in Hungary are "miles ahead of me in their familiarity with technology: they know how to surf the Web on their mobile phones and download all the music files they want. It's truly breaking down barriers." Czech teenagers today are as adept with wap phones and Sony PlayStations as their Western counterparts. Meanwhile, gearheads like Lubos Lavicka, a 36-year-old from Broumov in the Czech Republic, find that getting a job in Western Europe has never been easier, or more lucrative. His starting salary...
...combination of Europe Online's programming and delivery operations and Astra's satellites means that music, software and games can be downloaded fast, at around 2MB/second. A graphic-rich video game like Arabian Nights, which Europe Online now offers over the Internet, takes only 42 seconds to download via Europe Online vs. 32 minutes using a regular 56KB/second telephone dial-up connection. The reason Europe Online is so speedy is that its network uses multiple technologies for the up-link to the satellite. Among them: cable modems, integrated services digital network (ISDN) lines, digital subscriber lines (DSL), wireless application protocol...
...instead of going to the concert you could just download MP3 music files from the Internet on mobile phones like the latest model from Samsung being shown at CeBIT...
...example, a dial-up modem that connects to the Net over copper has a typical download speed of 56 kilobits--or 56,000 bits--per second, at which rate it would take nearly 10 minutes to download a three-minute song. By contrast, a modem connected to a TV cable that feeds into a fiber-optic loop could claim that tune in under a minute. Yet even today only about 6% of U.S. households have cable modems or digital subscriber lines, which carry compressed data over copper wires at broadband speed. But that hasn't stopped carriers from blanketing...