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Re: AT&T's 1993 "You Will" Ads -- no thanks to ATT!
From: David Farber <dfarber () cs cmu edu>
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:35:49 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: "Bob Frankston" <bob37-2 () bobf frankston com> Date: August 25, 2007 1:58:07 PM EDT To: <dave () farber net>, <ip () v2 listbox com> Cc: <dewayne () warpspeed com> Subject: RE: [IP] AT&T's 1993 "You Will" Ads -- no thanks to ATT!The important point is that we're doing this despite ATT, not because of ATT as they arrogantly assumed. There was as similar PR movie from the 1950's saying that one day you will go into a phone booth, dial home, and turn on your lawn sprinkler -- and that only Bell Labs could make it possible.
It is this arrogance that got ATT into trouble in the first place and they continue to force us to pay them for what we could not only do better than them but we can do it only by working around their gatekeepers.
These is a wonderful video – it’s another demonstration of why we cannot afford to put ourselves in the position of relying on carriers to do us good. Goes along well withhttp://www.frankston.com/? name=AssuringScarcity.
-----Original Message----- From: David Farber [mailto:dave () farber net] Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 09:01 To: ip () v2 listbox com Subject: [IP] AT&T's 1993 "You Will" Ads Begin forwarded message: From: dewayne () warpspeed com (Dewayne Hendricks) Date: August 24, 2007 1:33:11 PM EDT To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy () warpspeed com> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] AT&T's 1993 "You Will" Ads [Note: I remember these. Sort of interesting to checkout what they were predicting then and how much of it has been realized today, fourteen years later. Sort of not so much. One wonders whether or not to be happy or sad about that. BTW, the voice in those ads belongs to Tom Selleck. If you don't know who he is, then welcome to one of the changes that fourteen years brings. <g> DLH] AT&T 1993 "YOU WILL" ADSSo, looking back at what technology was "futuristic" then, how much
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