VIA Interaction

Tuesday, December 27, 2005

Universality

Dropped in on Manhattan during my vacation to look at one of our client's properties, 7 WTC. The World Trade Center site is now a booming construction site, with not an overabundance of reminders of Sept. 11.

Except for the hole.

There is a hole were the towers used to be, and though there is nothing special or unusual going on there in the construction zone, hundreds of people were gathered around the fence surrounding it. It was my first time to the site since the terrorist attack, and I found myself surprisingly affected by it. The people looking in were clearly from all over - all over the United States and the world.

I zipped up to a cafe in the Village for a coffee and sandwich, and turned this laptop on. There were 20 wireless networks in range, many unsecure, and I just latched onto one. I had the same experience in a friend's apartment last night - she did not have access but a neighbor did.

As cities talk of providing universal access to the Internet, there is a ground-up revolution going on that has probably already occurred in dense urban areas like New York City. We're all connected.

posted by Tim Beidel at 12/27/2005 01:58:00 PM

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