Sunday, July 24, 2005
Some people ask "Wire?" We ask "Wire not?"
(Note...saw this written at woot.com...found it funny so grabbed most all of it and adapted a little bit. Enjoy!)
The National Institute of Fictional Statistics estimates that, at current rates of growth, computer networking cables will make up 41% of the Earth's total mass by 2017. Large tangles of cable in major metropolitan centers are already visible from outer space, and their combined weight has been cited as a contributing factor in soil erosion and seismic activity. Ultimately, they predict, all human society will be oriented toward the manufacture and service of these cables, to the detriment of traditional industries such as agriculture, textiles, and LiveStrong bracelet production.
But there is something you can do. There is something we all can do. We need to go wireless in all aspects of life! Start looking around the house, if it has a wire...replace it. Cetainly the computer areas of your home can become wireless networks as well as phones. But think outside the box, washer and dryer, iron, tv, lamps. Join neighborhood programs to network these appliances. Folks, if we don't do something now, think of what this world will become.
The clock is ticking, but it's not too late to avert the network-cable catastrophe that some call "Wiremageddon." Network simply so that others may simply network, or our descendents will survey their wire-strangled world and curse our blind attitudes.
The National Institute of Fictional Statistics estimates that, at current rates of growth, computer networking cables will make up 41% of the Earth's total mass by 2017. Large tangles of cable in major metropolitan centers are already visible from outer space, and their combined weight has been cited as a contributing factor in soil erosion and seismic activity. Ultimately, they predict, all human society will be oriented toward the manufacture and service of these cables, to the detriment of traditional industries such as agriculture, textiles, and LiveStrong bracelet production.
But there is something you can do. There is something we all can do. We need to go wireless in all aspects of life! Start looking around the house, if it has a wire...replace it. Cetainly the computer areas of your home can become wireless networks as well as phones. But think outside the box, washer and dryer, iron, tv, lamps. Join neighborhood programs to network these appliances. Folks, if we don't do something now, think of what this world will become.
The clock is ticking, but it's not too late to avert the network-cable catastrophe that some call "Wiremageddon." Network simply so that others may simply network, or our descendents will survey their wire-strangled world and curse our blind attitudes.
// posted by Unknown @ 11:10 PM 
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You think this is funny, but I heard Ted Danson and Sean Penn explain at a recent awards show that all the wire on earth will be used up by 2010, along with all the air and water. And you KNOW those guys know what they're talking about!
Question. If we eliminate eletrical wiring then the industry that makes wire nuts will go out of business putting thousands out of work! Telephone splicers and repairmen are doomed. Linemen for the electric companies are gone under those circumstances. And what will they bail hay with? A lot of it is now tied with man made fibers. It weighs less but can be a greater means of pollution. What will happen to the cattle industry when barbed wire is banned? or the chicken industry when chicken wire is gone? Or the hog industry when hog wire is eliminated?
Will string, twine and rope be next? What about all the things that have been mended and hold together with wire. What will become of the do-it-yourselfers if they no longer have wire to mend things? i forsee the end of civilization if the world goes completely wireless! Robert of Robert's Tomfoolery. consider the sourse,
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Will string, twine and rope be next? What about all the things that have been mended and hold together with wire. What will become of the do-it-yourselfers if they no longer have wire to mend things? i forsee the end of civilization if the world goes completely wireless! Robert of Robert's Tomfoolery. consider the sourse,
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