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• Subject: Is the Internet a Silver Bullet?
• From: openeconomies(at)cyber.law.harvard.edu (Finbarr Livesey)
• Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 15:24:01 -0400

Iqbal

Thanks for the reply, here are some further comments.

When you say "all the services born on the Internet would be informational 
nature" I am slightly confused. Do you mean by their very definition they 
are digital, or do you truely mean that there will be no manufactured 
products, in the loosest sense of manufactured? As an example, what would 
you consider web design and development done remotely, a manufactured 
service or an information product?

I don't want to get tied up in semantics, but I also don't want us to talk 
past one another because we don't share common definitions.

On the Moore's Law point, it has been noted of course that there is a 
problem of infinite regress. If it's cheap now, why don't developing 
countries wait another 18 months when it will be an absolute steal, and so 
on ....... I think that one of the challenges here is in providing 
appropriate technology for the situation - whether that is a 486 or a 
Pentium III, fully wireless access or land based cable will vary place to 
place, but let's not be driven by the fashion of the developed countries 
either.

Thanks again,

Finbarr





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