Wired. Radical price/performance improvements in combination with decentralization creeps into the airline industry.
>>>"There's a paradigm shift coming in the per-mile transportation cost on jet aircraft that will replicate the personal computing phenomenon," Raburn says. "Remember in the mainframe era how everyone said that individuals would never want computers in their homes? Well, every other aspect of society over the past five decades has been going toward individual choice - think about cars, PCs, your cell phone. But here's the one big component of our economy - air transport - where everybody has decided that it's OK to go Greyhound." <<< [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
When something is in the air, it happens, even if it is stupid:
Want to Read This? Ask First. So, National Public Radio wants to control who links to their pages, just as a Dallas newspaper tried earlier this year. What is this, the Iron Curtain Wide Web? Commentary by Jon Rochmis. [Wired News]
