brian harris's presentation at emerging communication conference & awards 2010 america
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Tomorrow’s Apps on Yesterday’s
Wires?Infrastructure Observations From A Consumer Advocate In A Rural State
• “Working with AT&T would be like working with Cro-Magnon man. I asked them if they wanted to be early members […] They said no. I said “Well why not?”
…”Because packet switching isn’t going to work.”
• Bob Taylor, An Oral History of the Internet, Vanity Fair, July 08.
5 Repair Openings in 100 feet
Lead Sheathing & Repair Openings
• “[…] the system was down for a day and it was a major national story. It was like the water system was down or the electricity system was down.
• Steve Case
• I think the biggest shock for us, […] was that there are no big people; it’s up to all of us. And that’s a very scary thing, you know, when you realize what a vacuum there is in many ways in politics.
• Wes Boyd (co-creator of moveon.org)
• Tunnels of Blight?
•Or Tunnels of Light?
Photography byChuck Revell
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