Cook’s Collaborative Edge

from converge Digest vol 17 no. 102
Looking ahead, McAdam said he expects that most consumers will
ultimately have a number of devices that need connectivity —
four, five, six or perhaps as many as 20 devices. Consumers will
want to buy “a bucket of megabytes” to be used any way they want
by any of the devices. Voice becomes […]

Bill St Arnaud has the following paper available for reading
A personal perspective on the evolving Internet and Research and Education Networks
here is an abbreviated abstract:
Over the past few years the Internet has evolved from an “end-to-end” telecommunications service to a distributed computing information and content infrastructure. [snip].This evolution in the Internet was predicted by […]