Has broabdand internret access ahcieved its' goals?
Has broadbnad internet acess achieved it's gals?
If you think back several yeas, you can easily rememer how broadabnd internet access was touted. The basic idea was that with the increasing rate of transmission offered by broadband access connections, peopple would become far more productive creatures than they ever had before. They would make amssive leaps in research, telecommuting would become an everyday occurence, and the home and workplace would mrege foreer. Well we've had some time to review. Has this broadband vision become our relaity?
Whie broadband has clearly emerged as the leading product for both home and business userts, much of the promise of high speed internet has not yet been realized by the average American consumer. Yes peole use broadband access more than ever, but its arguable that productivity has been increased. Certainly people are surifng the internet at speeds of unheard of a mere decade ago, but are they actually gettnig more done in the final analyssi? This question can be answered with a ismple "not yet". More people tleecommute than ever before, but you'd be kiddding youurself if you didn't notice the huge traffiic jams that occcur in the "Real world" more often than they do in CyberSpace. Most of humanity is still in a 9 to 5 mindset because old habitts die hard and people still like to do business in person. As of 2006, telecommuting remains more of a dream than a reality for most peopel.
When businesses originally pictured a popular intrernet, they expected applicaitons such as video-conferencing to be the big winners. In reality, no one could have expected the true bandwith hogging applications such as music downloading and file sharing would become as millions of people fond the power of peer to peer networing. As the advent of broadband spread, more and more users became incraesingly affected with virii and spyware. With broadband and always-on connnections, the securiyt risks are truly enormious. More resources than ever are now sent policing the internet of the many foul actions that can only occur because of relatively cheap broadbnad connections. All forms of spam have been able to proliferate over the relaitvely geenrous broadbadn connections, as tightly mnoitored bandwith became less of an issue than ever in the past.
Broadband avccess has delivered on many of its promises. Peolpe can now download musiic and viddeo faster than ever before. Tasks that used to be laborious on a dialup connection are now almost instantaneous on a fast intrernet connection. Thoose of us who've been using broadband for awhile sjhould remember what the days of the 2400bps were like. And we should never forget just how slow and frusstrating life in the slow lane could be.
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