Daily Telegraph: [In the UK,] Southern Railway and T-Mobile will unveil details [this] week of the world's first train wireless broadband service. The T-Mobile HotSpot service will allow up to 8,000 daily commuters on the London to Brighton route to access the internet. It will be launched in the summer.
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Daily Telegraph
Southern Railway
T-Mobile
I always thought Italy was going to have a winning award for the antiquity of the carriage trains, till I travelled from London to Brighton.
They even still have those nice old style doors that open in every compartment and make the train looking so "Shelockholmish".
Reading about the "Hot Spots" on the London-Brighton trains looks to me like putting a lipstick on a gorilla's mouth and believing that he is going to look attractive.
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
The Telecoms do not know the Value, but certainly know the price...
Bread with butter: Euro 0.80
Bread with Margarine: Euro 0.60
Bread without butter: Euro 0.40
Bread without margarine: Euro 0.20
It sounds ridiculous, but it is just like:
Telephone call with VoIP: Euro 1/min. (Telecom)
VoIP call: Euro 0.02/min (VoIP provider)
Telephone call without VoIP: Euro 1.50/min
VoIP call without termination: Euro 0.00/min
Sometimes what you buy is the same, the only difference is the price.
It looks like the Telecoms do not know the Value, but know the Price.
Bread with Margarine: Euro 0.60
Bread without butter: Euro 0.40
Bread without margarine: Euro 0.20
It sounds ridiculous, but it is just like:
Telephone call with VoIP: Euro 1/min. (Telecom)
VoIP call: Euro 0.02/min (VoIP provider)
Telephone call without VoIP: Euro 1.50/min
VoIP call without termination: Euro 0.00/min
Sometimes what you buy is the same, the only difference is the price.
It looks like the Telecoms do not know the Value, but know the Price.
Sunday, April 10, 2005
Money can't buy back your youth when you're old...
Money can't buy back your youth when you're old...
And also cannot buy life when you're dead.
That is good, otherwise we would kill each other in order to live forever....
And also cannot buy life when you're dead.
That is good, otherwise we would kill each other in order to live forever....
Where is Europe going?
"For two thousand years or more man has been subject to a systematic effort to transform him in an unselfish animal.
Parental discipline, religious denunciation of selfish behaviour and philosophic exaltation of the life of reason have all left man overtly docile, but secretly in his unconscious unconvinced.
In spite of two thousand years of higher education, based on the notion that man is essentially a soul for misterious accidental reasons, man still thinks of himself as first and foremost a body and looks for the fullfillment of his own pleasures."
"A new class emerged during the Middle Ages; the merchant. The growth
of trade and the merchant middle class went hand in hand with the
growth in towns. Town populations swelled during this period,
particularly after the Black Death. Trade routes grew, though roads
remained poor and dangerous, so most goods were transported by water."
The richness was slowly more distributed among the people, the new middle class meant also the growth of the "mass market" of "mass services" like TV or Telephone or printed media and lately the Internet.
We lived dreaming of a new society where the pleasures of the "mind" (culture, knowledge) were superior to the pleasures of the "body".
Where a growing number of people could have access to a superior culture and wisdom.
The creation of a new wealth gave birth to a society based on the need of consuming more and more in order to be able to produce more and more.
The creation of the society of "having" instead of "being".
And in order to have more and more it is not important anymore the "way", but "what", no more "how" but "how much".
Where is Europe going?
Exactly in the same direction where the rest of the World is going.
May be at a faster speed.
To sell more portable phones they have to create the need of a different model, the need to create a sick population in order to have a healthy economy.
There will never be the ideal society, because man is not idealistically ideal.
But what they could create could be a society with ideals, with goals that are not a faster car or a new phone.
Also if that means a slower economical growth, which anyway makes richer the rich and poorer the poor...
Parental discipline, religious denunciation of selfish behaviour and philosophic exaltation of the life of reason have all left man overtly docile, but secretly in his unconscious unconvinced.
In spite of two thousand years of higher education, based on the notion that man is essentially a soul for misterious accidental reasons, man still thinks of himself as first and foremost a body and looks for the fullfillment of his own pleasures."
"A new class emerged during the Middle Ages; the merchant. The growth
of trade and the merchant middle class went hand in hand with the
growth in towns. Town populations swelled during this period,
particularly after the Black Death. Trade routes grew, though roads
remained poor and dangerous, so most goods were transported by water."
The richness was slowly more distributed among the people, the new middle class meant also the growth of the "mass market" of "mass services" like TV or Telephone or printed media and lately the Internet.
We lived dreaming of a new society where the pleasures of the "mind" (culture, knowledge) were superior to the pleasures of the "body".
Where a growing number of people could have access to a superior culture and wisdom.
The creation of a new wealth gave birth to a society based on the need of consuming more and more in order to be able to produce more and more.
The creation of the society of "having" instead of "being".
And in order to have more and more it is not important anymore the "way", but "what", no more "how" but "how much".
Where is Europe going?
Exactly in the same direction where the rest of the World is going.
May be at a faster speed.
To sell more portable phones they have to create the need of a different model, the need to create a sick population in order to have a healthy economy.
There will never be the ideal society, because man is not idealistically ideal.
But what they could create could be a society with ideals, with goals that are not a faster car or a new phone.
Also if that means a slower economical growth, which anyway makes richer the rich and poorer the poor...
Saturday, April 09, 2005
Who is going to pay for freedom?
"It is written that Freedom of the Press is only for those with presses. But Freedom to Connect is potentially available to everybody; the main economic limit is the need for sustainable networks that will improve as new technology becomes available.
How can we best do this?
The revolution has already begun.
Let's all jump on the Internet's train, let's make it possible also for the people who live in a remote village in Africa, let's make it available also to the people who think they do not need it: they will, as soon as they try it.
Talking is the first need of any human being. Before even trying to eat the newborn begins to scream.
Who will build, operate and govern these networks?
Every human need created a business and a big one. Why people do not see it?
Why do we still let the Monopolies of this world pretend to be blind?
Who will decide how we use them?
People will decide.
Who will pay?
That is the interesting part.
As the intelligence is at the edges, also the bill is at the edges.
Few dollars for every end will make millions for a huge Network.
Who will gain?
Everybody who is intelligent enough...
Jon Lebkowsky
How can we best do this?
The revolution has already begun.
Let's all jump on the Internet's train, let's make it possible also for the people who live in a remote village in Africa, let's make it available also to the people who think they do not need it: they will, as soon as they try it.
Talking is the first need of any human being. Before even trying to eat the newborn begins to scream.
Who will build, operate and govern these networks?
Every human need created a business and a big one. Why people do not see it?
Why do we still let the Monopolies of this world pretend to be blind?
Who will decide how we use them?
People will decide.
Who will pay?
That is the interesting part.
As the intelligence is at the edges, also the bill is at the edges.
Few dollars for every end will make millions for a huge Network.
Who will gain?
Everybody who is intelligent enough...
Jon Lebkowsky
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