Fortunate Contest

Mamma was a strong believer in heredity, and she believed our family’s German heritage predisposed us to two things: hard work and stubbornness. The gene for hard work lay pretty low in us kids while we were growing up, but stubbornness kicked in fast.

So one might say that what happened one summer evening in the late 1940s was all our ancestors’ doing.

Daddy was getting ready to go to a church board meeting. Four-year-old Davie wanted to go to the board meeting too. (Right from the start, Davie liked to go places, while Mamma, Daddy, and I liked to stay places.) We explained that board meetings were for grownups only. He still wanted to go. We explained that board meetings were for board members only. He still wanted to go. We all stood around the bedroom, while Daddy knotted his tie and combed his hair, and we took turns explaining what a miserable time Davie would have at a board meeting. By that time the conversation was getting heated and tears were beginning to flow, but also by that time Daddy was ready to leave and it was time to leave, so he left.

I watched the cloud of dust as the little black Chevy coupe sped up the hill next to our Montana farmhouse. And then I noticed at the rear of the dust cloud a tiny figure. Davie on his tricycle was bravely pedaling after. Clearly he intended to tricycle the five miles to the board meeting.

I watched him for several minutes. He got up some pretty good speed on the slope down toward the creek. But then the hill began, and the lower part of the hill was almost vertical. The tricycle wheels moved slower and slower, but Davie’s legs were still pushing. Davie wasn’t giving up.

About that time I thought to tell Mamma, and she realized what I had not: if a car should come swooping down that hill, it would mash Davie and his tricycle flat before the driver even saw them. Mamma was off like a shot, and I was able to observe the result of two objects with the same trajectory traveling at different rates of speed.

Davie was surprisingly docile once Mamma landed on him, and it appeared he had been defeated, but he had not. His views were unchanged. He still thought going was better than staying and going places on wheels was better than anything else.

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The coming age of general Broadband use bearing down upon
us, minute by minute, is going to leave many changes in its wake.
Some will be welcome; others will demand all we can do,
just to keep up!

Of course, items like high quality graphics, streaming video
and movies on demand will be commonplace. On the other hand,
Broadband spells the end of most common text-only websites.
Let’s face it: the consumer wants more! Offering a good deal
with high quality service won’t do it anymore.

Websites that cater to the newfound appetite for quality
audio and video content will get the sale. Obviously, that
makes perfect sense! It brings to mind an experience I had
while learning Photoshop. I purchased a very big manual and
it took me three weeks just to get my feet wet. A good
friend bought a video tutorial and arrived at my level of
skill in two days!

There are many other things audio and video can explain
better and in much shorter time than text, as in the example
above. We’re not talking just innovation; but also, the very
deep and long-lasting impact the technology is going to
produce.

I was reading an informative article written by Darrin Coe,
titled “The Internet Consumer Exposed.” It’s a piece
compiled from larger studies of the habits and lifestyles of
Internet centered consumers. By the conclusions reached in
the item, it does appear the consumer will smile upon the
coming Broadband changes. Here is Darrin’s website:
http://dcoe1.tripod.com/exposed1/

There are some Marketers actively staking out their
Broadband future. One that comes to mind is Jim Edwards.
Jim is also a well known writer and syndicated newspaper
columnist and - not to mention - a very pleasant person.

A week or so ago, I received an email from Jim inviting me
to witness the birth of his new multimedia Newsletter “I Gotta
tell You.” I was speechless! Very seldom do we get to watch
one of the early events giving birth to a revolution! It is
content delivery that’s light years away and it will only
get better and better. Good work Jim!

Here is Jim’s Newsletter: http://www.igottatellyou.com/

Another application that’s blazing a trail into Broadband is
the Instant Video Generator sold by Armand Morin, Alex
Mandossian and Rick Raddatz. Though they claim it works as
well with a dial up connection, I can see it carving out a
big chunk of the Broadband market. I’ve gone to the website
and viewed a few presentations. It does seem to work quite
well! The buffering is almost instantaneous and the quality
very good. Here is the website: http://instantvideogenerator.com

Conclusion

Start taking the necessary steps to get on the multimedia
bandwagon or suffer the same fate as the dinosaurs!
Broadband dominance will become an inescapable reality of
the very near future. As Stark Trek’s Borg say:
“Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated!”

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by Francisco Aloy

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