Connectivity

Surewest Communications is in my neighborhood these days, providing high-speed Internet connections to people's houses, whether they need it or not.

The absence of such connections nationwide may have helped break the dot-com boom in the late 90's. Fiber optic cable was laid everywhere, but the demand wasn't there for more than a fraction of the capacity. The demand could have been generated, but only by hooking people up en masse. Government could have done that, and I'm sure Al Gore even made that part of this platform in 2000, using the New Deal's rural electrification program as a model, but the 90's were the time of microinitiatives in government, Gore didn't take office, and nothing was done. Private business, focused as ever on the bottom line, didn't step forward in time. The result - collapse!

So now the connection will be there, should I ever need it. Maybe I will, maybe I won't.

Maybe Cloudy the bunny will sharpen her teeth on the new Internet connection. In any event, I should try to get Cloudy over to the vet sometime. They are nice with rabbits over there at Midtown Animal Clinic (behind the Dairy Queen) in Davis:


"Barry was well known to ask for all sorts of extras", by Alexr, over at B3ta.com