The time of the Phone is over.

And the Monopoly on the Internet must end.

The FCC must free up Radio bandwidth for open communications. Think open roof top router grid, with many Ma and Pa ISP's to pick from.

So 8,000 workers 12 hour shift.10,000 phones made per day. Assuming 3,000 of the workers are management and do not make phones. that 5,000 workers make 10,000 phones per day. Wow, no wounder it can't be done in the US.

As long as we understand electric cars are powered by Coal! Until we figure out that that wind, water, corn, grass, and geothermal power will never meet the demand for powering our cars. That Nuclear power is the only practical green solution. Electric cars will not reduce pollution no there own. None the less electric cars do allow for alternative power solutions. And we will run out of petrol sooner or later.

ok it seems that the CCD was invented at Bell labs. What a place to have worked 30 or 60 years ago. Still the two line drama is fiction, a fable. since it has a lesion to be learned.

I like the picture: "The last Kodak moment?"
I think I saw something like this on shashdot, since the CCD was invented at Kodak:

Kodak Employee: I just invented the charge-coupled device and can make pictures with it.

Kodak Employer: You bone head we make and sell film. Now stop wasting company time and and get back to work making better cheaper film products.

Just goes to show that if you can't think out of the box, in time you will fail, Sooner of later.

"Administrative Council for Terminal Attachments"
first hit on wikipedia.org

how about
"The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement"

Mod this guy down, at least until he explanes what he is talking about. Thanks

PS.
I know Obama got this one right, Even if he is just supporting his own. The fact that the Congress does not understand the first amendment, that the Internet needs to be free of abuse from ISP's just goes to show how uninformed the Congress is. If nothing else siding on a few ISP's over the greater industry that is the Internet seems counter to Congress's own beliefs, whether its pro business or pro people. Why the Congress is going pro ISP is unbelievable. Unless the Congress is just being anti executive branch in spite. That has to be it the most childish option. Go figure.

If the Congress had a clue they would give teeth to the FCC's rules. Perhaps even make the rules simpler.

Incase you do not know what is at stake. We know Comcast and Time Warner Cable want to sell you TV and Movies. If there local cash of content at there ISP's is fast(1080p) And the Internet upstream is slow(204p) or simply broken then the ISP has a Monopoly.
Net Neutrality fixes that.

Or if the IPS wants to charge other providers for sending the data both to the Net and then on top of that to send it the last mile.
Net Neutrality fixes that.

Science fiction has had some major predictive flops as well, such as when SF legend Isaac Asimov famously suggested that computers would become so big and so powerful that they would eventually grow to the size of planets.

I think this has come to pass. Well at least a computer that covers parts of the surface where we live. Its called the internet. Perhaps not quite what Asimov had in mind, but its here, now.

Does Verizon wanted data or advertising. One could get a lot more data from a simple cheap monitoring device(like the USB computer). Pick a phone with a GPS and a signal strength output. You might need to hack the phone to get your outputs. Then program the device to make calls and record the signal strength and location over time. Results out of standards can be texted back to a central monitoring sight using the same phone when it's back in an area with phone service.

Now that you have a cheap set up, put one in every Verizon vehicle. You could even take this one step more and get hikers to add the device to there pack for data off road.

The power of the Smalltalk-80 desktop is what we all are using today. Xerox failed completely. Steve was the one that got the GUI found on the it rolling. True The X-windows system was close second (what I use), and the true open source version. The Lisa followed by the Mac was way ahead of the game, long in advance of MS.

I did get a change to use the Tektronix version of the Smalltalk machine back in the day, but that was hardly a main stream device.

My Kudo's to Steve Jobs for that.

Why wold any one have a phone. Land lines are replaced with VOIP. And who would pay long distance with services like skype where calling around the world is like $0.08 cents UDS. to make the connection on the far end.

Then with the air waves stolen away. We all should be boycotting cell phone air time. Until we replace the piracy with our own roof top infrastructure.

So in reality there are no phones so it foolish to pay money for that.