Gilder: Optical networks are vital to the fulfillment of the business plans of the Internet economy and the future of world peace and prosperity. We already have an all-optical network in the critical paths of large portions of the infrastructure--chiefly the passive parts. It will rapidly spread over the next five years to reach into campuses, enterprises, and cities.
ASAP: So I take it you don't think the promises surrounding this all-optical network have been overstated?
Gilder: They have been drastically understated by companies that want to retrofit optics into the old system rather than create a new network that fulfills the intrinsic promise of a worldwide web of glass and light.
~ George Gilder, "Gilder On Optics," by Eric W. Pfeiffer, Forbes ASAP, August 21, 2000
(Quote provided by Fred Hickey in a July 15, 2024 tweet.)
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