http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070720_002525.html

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"I'll explain next week how I believe we came to be in this bandwidth mess, but this week I get to predict that the situation may (finally) be changing. Get ready for a substantially faster and somewhat cheaper Internet."

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"Who is the big winner here? Well I'll count myself a winner if my Internet pricing comes down a bit (I pay $168 for 8/1 cable service with five static IPs) but the REAL winner is Cisco Systems, whose largest market is service providers. With Comcast and Verizon pushing AT&T toward offering new technologies at lower prices, EVERYONE is going to need a new router."

7/20/2007 12:53:07 PM

95% of what Cringely says is speculation. If you read back over a year's worth of his columns, if all of it had come true, we would all have unlimited internet connections, Google would be our ISP, and we'd each have virtually unlimited HDD storage based on flexible, floppy-disk type technology

7/20/2007 1:24:03 PM

I have followed his blog and read all those posts you are talking about, and he never claimed any of that stuff was going to happen within a year.

7/20/2007 3:58:54 PM

i'm still waiting for the 150k ibm employees to be let go - so far he's only off by 130-135k give or take

7/20/2007 4:04:19 PM

haha inorite. i read him too, but it's mostly just for fun

7/20/2007 4:12:17 PM

well shit, me and my stock options hope this claim is Cringely's proverbial "nut found by a blind squirrel"

7/20/2007 4:40:09 PM