The purpose, of course, was to increase capacity of the road during rush hour. Those nearly two years of construction made the trek to and from the office miserable. In typical fashion though, when the millions of dollars in construction were spent and the commuter inconvenience during that time ended, traffic on this road was worse than ever before. And that is even when there isn't a rush hour fender bender on the road. I have since changed jobs and routes to work, but in the context of man's incapacity to meet conduit usage demand, I got to thinking about the future of the Internet.
Pundits say that broadband connectivity is our future.
But I am a realist. True, today more newly installed telecommunication capacity than ever is going online. Still, the typical business Internet user does not have the instant access to this capacity, even seemingly when our companies are paying for it. Instead, we typically must sit out the equivalent of telecom rush hours and rationing of resources. And this is likely to continue.