From: Zbadba@yabbs
To: feotus@yabbs
Subject: re: couple of things...
Date: Mon May  9 21:35:45 1994
I don't long for the days of fiber in the home. For a few reasons:
First, the flood of true illiterates onto the nets. (let's face it, if you 
can get online here, you're not totally illiterate) Second, the nets 
become commercialized and for profit (i.e. the free ride is already over 
for those not in academic institutions, and soon I fear that refuge will 
be lost as usage fees/pay as you go tolls are instituted). If I start 
having to pay for connect time at UWF, well, fuck it. I'll go back to 
landline BBS's which are free local calls. sure there's not nearly the 
diversity or breadth of services, but it's free.

Finally, I will miss the net and all it's intricacies. No, there's no 
real-time video or such (well, for most of us). But I don't want some kind 
of lubricated pipeline for that sort of stuff. the present day internet is 
much like a river system... with oxbow lakes, large tributaries and tiny 
creeks, backwaters, headwaters, rapids, damns and locks, eddies, and 
whirlpools. It's a place you can get lost in if you don't know where you 
are going. it's not all friendly and technicolor, but then neither is 
"real life." No, I do not look forward to fiber optics as I see it now.

I don'twant the internet to become prodigy.