Wouldn’t water-gas-electric networks make for more apt comparisons than freeways?https://twitter.com/bswud/status/912321523360333824 …
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problem is, I'm mostly ignorant of those areas - I am interested in becoming knowledgeable someday!
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Just curious since telecom networks are isomorphic to electrical grids (and sometimes they’re one and the same). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadband_over_power_lines …
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If we're going into details, a big question is whether data network rollout is being done right. A road can be resurfaced, but...
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... you can spend billions on network tech that is obsolete before returning much value.
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I remember the bandwidth envy many in Britain had towards Germany's high-tech domestic 64kb ISDN in the '90s. Then ADSL happened.
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Don't know much about France's Minitel - they had their own national text-based internet with social & commerce features in '80s
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Probably they got good value from it before it got superseded, but you could imaging laying it all out and then never using it
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