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...many places you can go to see the First World and the Third World meet--in some cases, in the same city. You cross over from the U.S. side and see a donkey pull a garbage cart through the streets as you drive out to see the Mexican fiber-optics factories. It felt like a kind of time travel--we just skipped the 20th century as we drove across town...
...generation of global executives commuting to class with passport in hand. An American whose primary residence is Prague, he manages some 300 employees across the Czech and Slovak republics for GTS, a firm based in London with offices in the U.S., and operates the largest fiber-optic network in Europe. But for 13 one-week stays over two years, Schoch is jetting into Barcelona to join 80 classmates of 24 nationalities...
...trendy buzzword, the higher education counterpart of America’s fascination with everything e-. But it reflects a mindset that becomes increasingly deep-seated with each year: the idea that education is a commodity, a quantity that can be transferred, like bank accounts or stock quotes, over fiber-optic wires or DSL lines. The University’s newfound emphasis on globalization suggests that the administration is coming to see “Harvard” as a brand name rather than a place...
...Under Tchuruk's leadership Alcatel gained strength in such high-growth areas as digital-subscriber line technology, which is used for broadband Internet access - and where Alcatel has an estimated 50% share of the global market - and fiber-optic components...
Modalen isn't the easiest place to wire. Nera has supplied each house with plate-sized antennas allowing families to link to the Net by a radio linkup. (As the town's few residents are scattered over 385 sq km, using copper or fiber-optic cable would be too pricey.) The Internet is connected to a set-top box on a TV, controlled by a wireless keyboard. Modalen's 2 megabits per second is roughly 35 times as fast as conventional modems. Each customer pays $18 a month for the service; the municipality covered the installation costs of nearly...