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Testing out an email archiving system at work recently, and during that testing, I poked around to some of the oldest emails I've got laying around. I came across a snippet of back and forth discussions about our internet bandwidth from a decade ago. We were talking at the time about upping our Internet connection, from the 128 KB connection we had. It struck me as I read that old email, how strange it is, to be here a decade later with over 100 times the speed connection, and still somehow facing the same dilemmas. Is there ever enough bandwidth? I think the question is pointless, as we're likely to utilize every byte of bandwidth we can eke out of the system. Still it struck me as wild to remember that old connection, which at the time seemed reasonably fast. That it managed to handle the workload it did amazes me.
On the flip side, my phone has an internet connection speed these days that dwarfs what my corporation had a decade ago. Back then, I didn't even have a pager, and had dialup internet access and was looking into getting DSL. Now I carry with me nearly at all times three devices that can all reach the internet via Cellular connection, at speeds that nearly rival my cable connection. I'm not sure I want to contemplate the scope of information that will be flying around the ether before long. How will the next generation be able to cope? Probably the way my generation has, despite having vastly more available at our fingertips than every before in history.
I'm kind of stuck at the moment thinking simultaneously: plus ca change, plus ca meme, and mentally humming Dylan's The Times They Are a Changing.
On the flip side, my phone has an internet connection speed these days that dwarfs what my corporation had a decade ago. Back then, I didn't even have a pager, and had dialup internet access and was looking into getting DSL. Now I carry with me nearly at all times three devices that can all reach the internet via Cellular connection, at speeds that nearly rival my cable connection. I'm not sure I want to contemplate the scope of information that will be flying around the ether before long. How will the next generation be able to cope? Probably the way my generation has, despite having vastly more available at our fingertips than every before in history.
I'm kind of stuck at the moment thinking simultaneously: plus ca change, plus ca meme, and mentally humming Dylan's The Times They Are a Changing.