I wish more people looked at different pieces of technology as tools. Seems like it rises to the status of religion way too much. One piece of software is a binary incarnation of God while another is the root# of evil.
As for a comparison of the infancy of the net vs. the infancy of the phone system, that's not really a fair comparison. The phone system infrastruction was bought and paid for by the American taxpayer. The internet is trying to get there on the cheap, leveraging the existing infrastructure already bought and paid for. It's my belief that we're going to eventually need an entirely new infrastructure, and the taxpayer will again foot the bill. Business just won't pony up the amount of money it's going to take.
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