So I've been reading several articles that say that $4.00 gas is causing people to change their driving habits. Consolidating trips, canceling vacations, no free pizza delivery, tele-commuting, etc. Which made me start to think that if gas goes higher (and it probably will) and tele-work becomes more and more prevalent (I hope it does, I love working from my home office). Will the traffic jams in the DC Metro area move from the real highway to the information highway? ISP's are already cracking down on P2P and other high-bandwidth apps. What's going to happen when a few thousand go2mypc users hope on the net on your local DSLAM or its Cable equivalent. Will Verizion regret giving such high speeds to FIOS users initially? I guess on the plus side, adding more lanes to the information-highway is far easier than the real highway. It'll be interesting to see how this pans out.
I should google this meme... I'd bet I'm tech-person number 32,1231 to have come up with this 'all on their own' this week.
Rich
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