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Lectures notes for 2010 - KTH

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Too cheap to meter<br />

"It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes<br />

electricity too cheap to meter, -- will know of great periodic regional<br />

famines in the world only as matters of history, -- will travel ef<strong>for</strong>tlessly<br />

over the seas and under them and through the air with a minimum of<br />

danger at great speeds, -- and will experience a lifespan far longer<br />

than ours as disease yields and man comes to understand what<br />

causes him to age."<br />

-- Lewis L. Strauss, Chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission<br />

In an address to the National Association of Science Writers<br />

16 Sept. 1954<br />

Today three other technologies are approaching the too cheap to measure point:<br />

• computing power<br />

• digital storage<br />

• communication bandwidth<br />

⇒ faster, better, cheaper -- a "triple play" <strong>for</strong> on-line services<br />

Maguire Too cheap to meter 13: 17 of 91<br />

maguire@kth.se <strong>2010</strong>.03.21 Internetworking/Internetteknik

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