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IP: RE: Re: Another opinion re : Overcoming Barriers to Rural
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 1997 12:38:15 -0500
X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 3.3 (Enhance 1.3) From: Hal Varian <hal () alfred sims berkeley edu> Date: Mon, 3 Mar 97 09:07:00 -0800 To: farber () cis upenn edu On Sun, 02 Mar 1997, Dave Farber wrote:
There is no need for subsidized connectivity. Other needs (new text books, for instance) are far greater.
You are so right. During the 1980s there were 28,000 for-profit libraries established in the US. At these libraries you could rent 10 gigabytes of information overnight for $3.00. They used no government subsidies or programs, yet they now server over 85 percent of American households. What are they? Video stores. ------ Hal Varian, Dean voice: 510-642-9980 SIMS, 102 South Hall fax: 510-642-5814 University of California hal () sims berkeley edu Berkeley, CA 94720-4600 http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal
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