Comments on: The Revolution Won't be Phoned Home

By: Ivan Strand

Ivan Strand — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:06:34 +0000

And if your are really old like me, you will remember when during the AT&T monopoly days, it cost $1.00 PER MONTH to get a 10′ cord from wall to phone instead of the standard 3′ cord. That’s about $10.00 per month after inflation.

By: freightquote

freightquote — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 22:41:02 +0000

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Thanks for any helpful answers you may have on how to blog successful. Thanks Eric

By: Judi Sohn

Judi Sohn — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 21:40:12 +0000

I agree that it’s here and will be here…the question is when will it be enough that we no longer have to explain what we’re talking about to most people. A toddler looks at a toy phone and puts it up to her ear. That’s the kind of adoption and absorption I’m talking about.

We feel like we’re in the thick of it, but I think the reality is that we’re barely touching the edge of the beginning.

By: the routerguy

the routerguy — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 20:18:31 +0000

It’ll be here sooner than you think. With DNS SRV records, sip URI’s, federated IM ,STUN, and other associated technologies, we’re on the verge of your email address(es) being the gateway to all your communications. It’s not click to call, its one address to communicate, and the choice of how you’re reached is up to you. Geography is irrelevant. If I want unauthenticated calls to go straight to voicemail, (which shows up as a playable email or IM at my discretion I can. If I choose to have calls from some people on my contact list find me, I can have that. If I only want some people to communicate by email, or IM, I can have that. Want video? no problem. This isn’t trial technology, in the lab; it’s live, deployed, and being used every day. Is it prevalent? Not yet, but soon. The key is to prevent commercial abuse, and control access. As communications cost drops toward zero (see economics of abundance), time becomes ever more valuable. Pay-per-post, spam, spim, browser hijacks, and the like are the precurser to increasingly widespread unsolicited advertising, ever more cleverly disguised, through more channels than ever before. The “signal to noise” ratio of communcations will continue to tip toward noise, and it will become more and more difficult to manage the deluge. Currently envisioned legal and technological solutions are, and will continue to be, woefully inadequate.