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Computing and Communication: A Personal View

Personal Computing and Communication (PCC)

Upper limit of bandwidth: saturate the senses: sight, sound, touch, smell, taste
==> ~1 Gbit/sec/user

Current workstations shipping with 1 Gbit/sec interfaces for LAN!

Telepresense for work is the long-term "killer" application

-- Gordon Bell and James N. Gray[7]

[7] "The Revolution Yet to Happen" in Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of Computing, Eds. Denning and Metcalfe, Copernicus, 1997.
Computing and Communication: A Personal View - 20 Oct 1997

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