rub it in, will ya?
CNN did a little gallery of the effect of the internet on select person's lives. One of them is from Kauai. Hard life!
I remember back in high school/college a group of us tried to make a computer game; it naturally fell flat, perhaps for the main reason that were were just high school kids, but it was very interesting to see people from all over the world; we had people in the UK, Germany, Australia, and the US. Trying to find a time so we could all chat was very difficult! Anyway, I still think it's pretty amazing that, for example, my father in Hawaii can read X-rays of patients in Arizona, thanks to the internet. My good friend doesn't have a real phone service any more, he uses voice over IP, the call quality is pretty good and the rates are good for them. Perhaps the internet is the last edge of the US over the world, although this is fast fading, I think, due to the 'portability' of the technology. A person in malasia with a internet connection could start up a web business, for example, without much knowledge at all. Whereas in the past, you can't really export car manufacturing readily, nor can you export computer chip manufacturing.
Jim Manico, Kauai, Hawaii
Surfing the Web since 1994
I am a high tech worker -- through Blue Slate Solutions, I am a business analyst and computer programmer consultant for a Fortune 500 company -- and this would be impossible if it were not for the Internet.
I live on the island of Kauai in Hawaii! I take lunch breaks with my boogie board in the ocean. I drink coconut milk for breakfast from the trees in my back yard. It truly is paradise here. I talk to the team I am on via instant message, we e-mail all day, I check my code in to a source code control system via the Internet, all securely, and the distance is barely noticeable.
I remember back in high school/college a group of us tried to make a computer game; it naturally fell flat, perhaps for the main reason that were were just high school kids, but it was very interesting to see people from all over the world; we had people in the UK, Germany, Australia, and the US. Trying to find a time so we could all chat was very difficult! Anyway, I still think it's pretty amazing that, for example, my father in Hawaii can read X-rays of patients in Arizona, thanks to the internet. My good friend doesn't have a real phone service any more, he uses voice over IP, the call quality is pretty good and the rates are good for them. Perhaps the internet is the last edge of the US over the world, although this is fast fading, I think, due to the 'portability' of the technology. A person in malasia with a internet connection could start up a web business, for example, without much knowledge at all. Whereas in the past, you can't really export car manufacturing readily, nor can you export computer chip manufacturing.
ALOHA from KAUAI!