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Used to be when it first came out, Wired was a mag the best quality printing on no substance I had ever seen, really seemed like a borderline artist mag. The colors were amazing. I see now, upon looking at a recent issue, their content seems to have improved dramatically. Brian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pete Kruckenberg" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 9:22 AM Subject: Re: PAIX > > Wired covered several of these topics in their August issue. > > http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.08/korea.html > > The article points out several subtle, yet fundamental, > changes that happen socially and psychologically once the > broadband network is available everywhere, to virtually > everyone, all the time. We have yet to experience this in > the US. I suspect that when it happens, it will be much > different than we expect it to be, technically and > otherwise. > > We still have to remember that for all the hype about the > Internet, the killer app is still email and instant > messenging. The "killer apps" on Internet2 (video > conferencing, digital libraries, media-rich collaboration), > which give some indication of what the future killer app > will be, seem to be equally mundane (but exciting at the > same time). > > Pete. > > On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 [email protected] wrote: > > > On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:22:09 -0500 David Diaz wrote: > > > 2) There is a lack of a killer app requiring peering every 100 sq Km. > > > > I recommend some quality time with journals covering South > > Korea, broadband, online gaming and video rental. >
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