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DIED. PAUL HENSON, 71, bold telephone chief whose costly construction of the first major fiber-optic network turned Sprint into the third largest U.S. long-distance carrier; of complications from liver cancer; in Palm Springs, California...
...fact, as much as the Net is changing our ideas of God, it may be changing us even more. For many, signing on to the Internet is a transformative act. In their eyes the Web is more than just a global tapestry of PCs and fiber-optic cable. It is a vast cathedral of the mind, a place where ideas about God and religion can resonate, where faith can be shaped and defined by a collective spirit. Such a faith relies not on great external forces to change the world, but on what ordinary people, working as one, can create...
Each packet is then whisked along over fiber optic lines to the router nearest you. There are six of them on campus, including one for the river houses, one for the Yard and one for the Quad. Think of a router as a "hub for hubs," taking all the packets from thousands of users and sending them along once more to the Science Center...
...gray ponytail (recently clipped off). I like the way he always wears sneakers, even to formal dinners. I like the unapologetic conviction with which he speaks about the great millennial Wired enchilada: the collapse of governments and economies under the weight of a gajillion interconnected, deregulated fiber-optic strands; the rise of the global village; the triumph of one-to-many communication; the demise of the clueless press. So what if he's such a tightwad that he makes his employees buy their own pens? His vision of the future inspires a dedicated young staff to work unbelievably hard...
...solved. Jim Chiddix, Time Warner Cable's chief technical officer, acknowledges that it's taken the company longer than expected to work out glitches, but adds that "our new network works. Akron is the real deal." The solution to balky coax networks? Replace the balkiest portions with gleaming fiber-optic wire. The Akron system and those that follow, says Britt, will run fiber from the head ends to local nodes serving 500 homes apiece...