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Last year you had to switch on the Internet and wait for it to `boot up'. This year you will be able to connect to PlaNet, and other ISPs I suppose, with DSL, and DSL is always on whenever your computer is on. Yes, DSL was available last year, but it was and is knobbled by Telecom, which counts and bills for every byte that moves. That's not the Internet of the future. This year, within weeks, you will be able to take up 128k DSL, flatrate, no time, no data charges, always on. Flatrate DSL is evolutionary because: 1. It makes your Internet computer exactly that, an Internet computer able to use Internet services whenever it is on at a speed that moves IP services from trendy add-on to standard issue. 2. It means that online Media is usable and in doing that makes your computer your primary media source. First because its always there, second because video is watchable, third because unlike other trad media you get what you want when you want it so that the tedious programming issue becomes a thing of the past, fourth because its low cost. PlaNet via PTV and soon to come PRadio supplies media, media that projects a world that looks very different to what Hollywood, media that is now easier to find and free, media you can participate in. 3. It makes using remote servers and remote software usable. Last year businesses spent huge sums on new expensive computers, new expensive operating systems, new expensive software and upgrades only to have all that tied to the office environment and makes a business captive to predatory IT hardware and software suppliers. This year businesspeople will be able to access a single and very powerful online server with latest freely upgraded software available to all (authenticated only) users anytime anywhere on computers that do not need upgrading because they are not doing the work. This year PlaNet will be offering your business an online commercial environment which I believe will move IT from your office servers to online remote servers and lower the annual IT bill by 75% and free the business from the medieval fiefdoms that are the IT corporates. 4. It means that your computer, which like your brain (and mine) has 95% of its capacity unused will be shifted into a new `always on and always working' mode (leaving your brain free to be creative not just re-creative). This mode has been pioneered by the true builders of the Internet, the skilled amateur, in such distributed computing projects like SETI in search of extra-terrestrial life. With high-speed always on Internet, distributed computing will come to your office via the Internet. The power of a supercomputer available from an online PC. Remote Server Applications (RSA) and Distributed Computing (DC) will be the new things in 2001. There are sound technical reasons for this, flatrate DSL availability, and there are sound business reasons: Investors. Peer-to-peer computing is already here and working and will continue to be focussed on by investors. Distributed computing is the more powerful cousin of that technology and RSA is the complementary partner to DC. Businesses. Any company that has to crunch a large amount of numbers will soon see that distributed computing is much cheaper than the alternative: buying a supercomputer and RSA is much cheaper to the alternative, buying an office-full of new computers, operating systems and software upgrades. Distributed computing and RSA will change the way we think about networks and about computing architecture. It'll do this by breaking up networking infrastructure into smaller pieces for specific applications, thus reducing the need for larger servers and new privately owned servers. DC and RSA will transform the Net from a document-based network of Web pages and email into a dynamic, granular network where specific components of information can be located, processed and shared more efficiently and at greatly lowered cost with no time or geographical barriers. Always on will mean always working. Nothing new to PlaNet of course, but in all probability new to your business and home computing environment. Watch www.pl.net index link = `new services' which will explain all, as of week starting 8 Jan 2001 ..
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