"Everyone knows that the broadband era will breed……" — Charles Platt
"Everyone knows that the broadband era will breed a new generation of online services, but this is only half of the story. Like any innovation, broadband will inflict major changes on its environment. It will destroy, once and for all, the egalitarian vision of the Internet."
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18 Quotes by Charles Platt
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At 3-D Imax theaters, audiences have shown they are willing to pay a premium to wear headgear fitted with liquid-crystal…
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The landscape of the Net has changed; that cyberfrontier of the past has become a teeming city of people, transactions,…
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The always-on economy, by definition, depends upon continuous energy.
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Unsurprisingly, an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) - once a luxury for room-sized computer installations - is now a standard item…
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When the International Space Station is finally launched, it will be fitted with special nickel-hydrogen batteries weighing a total of…
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Merchandise from Wal-Mart has become as ubiquitous as the water supply. Yet, still, the company is rebuked and reviled by…
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Despite (or because of) a free public school system, millions of teenagers enter the work force without marketable skills. So…
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If low-temperature fusion does exist and can be perfected, power generation could be decentralized. Each home could heat itself and…
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Watching cold fusion is like watching water boil in slow motion. First, sufficient deuterium has to penetrate the palladium electrode.…
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Even if major funding is obtained for cold fusion, conceivably the phenomenon could suffer from problems as intractable as those…
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In Finland in the winter, when the sky is totally choked with clouds, the country becomes one big sensory deprivation…
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The idea of an e-book has been around since the late 1970s, when researchers at Xerox PARC got on the…
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