Author: Ken Pyle, Managing Editor
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A Power Grid with a Transit System
Google’s real innovation in deploying Fiber-to-the-Home broadband networks had little to do with technology and a lot to do with improving the process for building physical plant. The technology to light the fiber was available when Google started its quest to offer a gigabit/second to residential customers. The big challenge was creating the fiber connection…
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Viodi View – 09/12/15
One of the best things about touring small town America is seeing the unexpected. For instance, it was surprising to me that Quincy, Illinois, a city of approximately 41,000, is large enough to support public transit. Like their larger city brethren, it is time for planners in even smaller cities to consider the impact of autonomy on…
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A Transition Step(s) to an Autonomous Transport Future
A relatively low-density city designed around the car. Public transportation service that meets its published schedule only 71% of the time, leading to customer satisfaction of only 65%, while the fare recovery is only 15% (passengers only pay 15% of the actual cost with government subsidies making up the difference). Although the above sounds like a description befitting most any U.S. post-World War…
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Viodi View – 08/29/15
Memories can mean many things. From the technology world, one thinks of megabytes and gigabytes. From a human standpoint, memories are a bit different, as they aren’t so binary since, over time, the mind blurs the distinct lines of the here and now. In that light, it was a privilege to be behind the camera…
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Viodi View – 08/17/15
Is it a fad or is here to stay? That is one of the top questions for a mainstream adopter when considering a new technology. Two recent articles pointed out the challenge of technologies face as they move from early adoption to the mainstream. In one, columnist Troy Wolverton, explained that, after wearing his smart watch for two months,…
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Viodi View – 07/31/15
On the eve of August, we are in the middle of the so-called dog days of summer. As such, many in the Viodi View audience may be reading this from gigabit vacation homes (at least if they are in a service territory of CoMo, which reportedly has a customer with gigabit access at his home…