[BC] The Future

[Cowboy]

On Friday 01 December 2006 09:12 pm, Douglas B. Pritchett wrote:
 >
 >  maybe we should ponder the future.
 >
 > Can you see a day when everything will be delivered to you on your
 > handheld device? Radio and TV will cease to exist. It will be
 > entertaiment totally on demand. Capture a movie on your handheld, them
 > Bluetooth it to your HD plasma (or whatever) screeen at home. The word
 > "internet" will become obsolete, replaced by a vast messaging and
 > information system with capabilities far beyond today. ((How'm I doin??))

  OK, methinks.
  The variants would be that I see it delivered to an appliance at home,
  *then* transfered to handheld, all via internet which will not only 
still exist,
  but at speeds in this country more in step with other industrialized
  nations, eventually, though perhaps not as a bidirectional thing over wires.

 > That's where the spectrum will go.

  Part of it, certainly.

 > As for our business, we need to know networking, wireless, and some
 > interpersonal skills ;_). The ability to run a Maggie, hit a vocal post,
 > run a proof, tune up a phasor, tweak a processor, dip the plates and
 > peak the grids.......will be obsolete. Just like me.

  Some of it will be obsolete, some not.
  Processors will still process, transmitters will still transmit.
  Phasors will still phase, and be adjusted, they just won't be transmitting
  the same stuff as today.

  Multi-plex transmitting sites will be more common, and more complex.
  Combiners will be handling many more frequencies.
  Six tower diplexers will be simple by comparison.

  Depending on how far into the future this is, I'll still be there.
  Still setting them up, and still adjusting them.
  Still troubleshooting them, and still getting paid.
  And if God is in a *really* good mood, still showing up on a Sportster,
  and still climbing, and still teaching younger folks who want to learn,
  if any.

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Cowboy