SES-10 Mission - Hackdot

Re:SES-10 Mission by sqeaky on Thursday March 30, 2017 @08:58PM (#14000414)

While you are correct for the most part, I would point out that text services have wider distribution even if only for bandwidth reasons. But there are other reasons, there are good (enough) and widely distributed text standards (SMS), but not yet for video.

But maybe we are both over thinking it, does the old voice network reach even further?

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Re:SES-10 Mission by ooqr on Friday March 31, 2017 @08:07AM (#14002893)

Writing is reusable and presumably most of the learning going on behind rapid technological expansion requires literacy. Even just to navigate around Khan Academy.

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Re:SES-10 Mission by Florin_Andrei on Thursday March 30, 2017 @09:50PM (#14000637)

Audio-only is a little better that way.

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Re:SES-10 Mission by jacquesm on Thursday March 30, 2017 @09:42PM (#14000603)

You can use Skype and similar services without video.

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Re:SES-10 Mission by sqeaky on Friday March 31, 2017 @11:14AM (#14004622)

You can but it doesn't fundamentally change my points. The old analog audio network and the text systems have much larger reach.

Laying out enough digital network fabric to have skype and its kind everywhere is an admirable goal though.

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