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Waiting for Columbus
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Monday, May 19, 2003

That old memester, Nicholas "Mr. Bits" Negroponte, is at it again. In an interview in today's Boston Globe (here today, gone the day after tomorrow), he says that at an FCC technical advisory committee meeting he responded to the charge that there's no economic model for wifi as follows: ...I raised my hand and I said, "There's not only a precedent, there's a very strong economic model...flower boxes" Think about it. If you put a flower box outside your house, you're first of all using your own money to buy the flowers. You're hanging it out there. You're doing it... [Joho the Blog]


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