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

[Tom Sparks]

----- Original Message ----
From: Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com>
To: gurpsnet-l at sjgames.com
Sent: Wednesday, 31 December, 2008 9:02:53 PM
Subject: Re: [gurps] Re: Internet on blue planet and like worlds

>> 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,
you are thinking of a wireless sensor network ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensor_network )

> and some non-cheap, high-volume ip connected nodes buffering this for the colonists,
> <snip>
a caching proxy server (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server) would do the job

>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.
I can understand emails/voice-emails/video-emails send and received from earth
I dont see the need for earth based entertainment like TV, radio etc
when local entertainment is better



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