Elon University

MBones and Giganets: What Will Replace the Internet?

One contender, the Gigabit Testbed Initiative, envisions billion-bit-per-second wires. Ways to connect and manage such capacity are now being tested at five sites across the country. Or the signals could be carried by phone lines or TV cables. But there’s a dark horse. Utilities are thinking of installing “information pipes” into homes to carry electronic signals that would control peak power demand.

The Pursuit of Techno-Happiness

In our education process we teach this blind faith in technology. We need to basically present the antitechnology viewpoint as reasonable. That we should look at [technology] with an incredibly critical eye. Just because we can do X, Y, Z, doesn’t mean we should do X, Y, Z.

The Pursuit of Techno-Happiness

We will someday see the [cyber]species that we make as being as beautiful as a butterfly … Our chief chore is taking on the duties and responsibilities of gods … I believe technology is unadulteratedly good in our world, just as life is good on our planet.