Economic assumptions

Evil Pete shipley at merde.dis.org
Mon Apr 4 15:36:52 PDT 1994


>
>Evil Pete says:
>> > I can imagine that bandwidth in the fibersphere for text transmission
>> > will be too cheap to meter, which means that the cost of metering
>> > would more than the marginal revenue.  In this case, and this is not
>> > the near future, there aren't any delivery charges per message.
>> 
>> 
>> that is what Tom Edison said about electrity....
>
>Actually electricity too cheap to meter was an idiotic comment made
>about nuclear power in the 1950s. However, I'll point out that its
>been some years since I noticed the cost of my electric bill.

My electric bill averages around $200 to $250


		-Pete






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