What irks me? I know many have wondered. But something that really and truly irks me is a story in The Register – a UK rag that proclaims there are now over 1 million (that’s a 1000 times 1000 for you folks in Arkansas) Europeans are now running broadband internet on fibre optic cables directly to their homes.
WTF is this? I thought we were in America? Why is it that we in America aren’t running fibre to the home? We created a pen that can write in zero gravity, we put a man on the moon, we started the internet for crying out loud. We created the telephone, the helicopter, the airplane, and microwave pizza. But we can’t get fibre to our homes to run broadband internet on? They have to do it in Europe before we do it here?
This is wrong…just so, so, so wrong. I suppose we are all just too busy wondering why Spears cut her hair off, or whether Ana-Nicole will actually be buried somewhere and how the father really is to worry about such technological leaps as running fibre optic cables to our homes.
Bah…
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I’m pretty certain that the European govts paid for the fiber optic cable installations. Don’t worry, in the next few years we’ll leapfrench the Europeans when we implement broadband wireless access (at a fraction of the price to install fiberoptic cable, I might add).