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In <samc-0704951141560001@ip-pdx6-15.teleport.com>, samc@teleport.com (Sam Churchill) writes:

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>Hughes has another satellite platform for 1.5M 2-WAY data transmission
>using 3 foot dishes. It could put pressure on the phone companies, too. A
>satellite backbone broadcasts to millions, simultaneously, without
>overhead. 
>
>I really like this concept. Can anyone think of a more cost/effective
>delivery mechanism?

Not off the top of my head.  I like it too. :-)

Also, I was scanning the ads yesterday, and I saw a local computer store
advertising a CD-ROM maker for under $2,000.  That (finally) makes CD-ROM
practical as a backup medium.  It also gives the end user a practical place to
put all that data that could come flying down such a pipe.

The technological building blocks may actually all be falling into place at the
same time in order to make us a "wired" society.

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