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By J.C.Melo The period, more or less one year before September 11. The White House Technology Advisor worked in mankind largest plan until now, to install a fantastic communications and IT network of 100 Mb/s in 100 million houses in next 10 years. A plan bigger than Kennedy's plan to place a man in Moon in 10 years.
The plan was being developed with a lot of priorities, 470 companies had already petitioned to participate and/or to invest, they discussed more suitable communications protocol among existent ones - as H.323 - and new ones, etc. The forecast was to announce it until end of 2002.
That plan had very big goals, among which I can remember:
01. e-Surgery 02. e-Physician 03. e-Education (all levels) 04. e-Training (for companies) 05. e-Business (B2B, B2C, C2B, and by voice) 06. Iterative TV 07. e-Movies 08. e-Security (Federal, State, Country, homes) 09. e-Elections 10. TV telephony 11. e-Police 12. e-Government (all between government and Citizens) 13. e-Theater 14. e-Conferences 15. e-Libraries 16. e-Sciences 17. e-Polls 18. e-Management 19. TeleCommuter (home work) 20. All IT processing and storage through distant data centers 21. An estimated 1,000,000 new companies
and more e-Xs that you can imagine.
In every moment that I thought of this plan, I lamented two things: first, to be 73-years old and probably cannot accompanies him in next 30 years, and second, dozens of technological ideas that I could suggest.
And then September 11 happened, main national priority moved to security matters, investments - government and privates - moved to another directions and people worried more about moment than with future.
