A bit of Friday humour from Hoop..enjoy
I consider Fibre to be the next major advancement in this ongoing Industrial (technological) Revolution...It has to be up there with Electrical power line rollouts, copper wire rollouts for phones connected to manual exchanges (remember the party lines)..air waves (transmitters.cell towers) ...unfortunately I remember all these occasions :p and thinking back it it drew the same infighting between the futurist (exponential) thinkers v the conventional (linear) thinkers with their why change so quickly and upset the status quo arguments...people out there with invested interests either-way ..the wacko's...the scaremongers...the denial people that see any change as bad...together with the masses who tried to make sense of where all this was going to go in the future.
Technological lifestyles changes usually happen suddenly often within a generation time frame..with each Technological rollout comes inventions we never could imagine at the time e.g electricity was thought of mainly for lighting to replace the candle/lamps... Fibre atm is mainly thought of communication and replacement for copper lines..
What does all this have to do with Chorus???...Any monopoly that has no or limited foresight or competitive need to change ( invest money into an "unknown" area)..won't do so...It will fail to adapt fast enough and will eventually fade out...
Below is some humorous quotes by famous people who applied their "now" thinking to their future outlook...Note these quotes are less than 150 years old...ENJOY:)
[W]hen the Paris Exhibition closes electric light will close with it and no more be heard of.
- Erasmus Wilson (1878) Professor at Oxford University
They will never try to steal the phonograph because it has no `commercial value.' - Thomas Edison (1847-1931). (He later revised that opinion.)
This `telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a practical form of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. - Western Union internal memo, 1878
What use could this company make of an electrical toy? - Western Union president William Orton, responding to an offer from Alexander Graham Bell to sell his telephone company to Western Union for $100,000.
Well informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires and that were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value. - Editorial in the Boston Post (1865)
Radio has no future. - Lord Kelvin (1824-1907), British mathematician and physicist, ca. 1897.
While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially I consider it an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little time dreaming. - Lee DeForest, 1926 (American radio pioneer and inventor of the vacuum tube.)
[Television] won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night. - Darryl F. Zanuck, head of 20th Century-Fox, 1946.