[gurps] Re: Internet on blue planet and like worlds

[Jeff Wilson]

> However, desired content must be produced. What percentage of
> the internet users are producing massive amounts of content, 
> rather than just consuming content? Now scale that down to a
> population of less than two million. 

The scaling is not that simple. Your typical high-volume user here is 
moving gulping a gigabyte a day and serving somewhat less in the form a 
webcam, file sharing, untrimmed replies, and some pet thing like DJ-ing.

For each expensive colonist, you'll have zillions lots of cheap, 
IP-connected sensors and effectors that need to be monitored and driven 
remotely, because there's only so many places the colonist can go in a 
day, and some non-cheap, high-volume ip connected nodes buffering this 
for the colonists, like meteorology and logistical systems. Then, on top 
of that, they are going to want a stream of as much of Earth's daily 
content as they can get, for entertainment as well as reference purposes.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
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