In Germany it is faster to send data by horse than using the Internet*.
*My favourite story about Germany’s slow internet came from the deepest
Sauerland, a region of rolling hills and dense forests to the south-east of Dortmund.
A photographer needed to send a large photo collection to a printer that was 10
kilometres away. The total data volume was 4.5 gigabytes, which is about the size of
an average movie. He organised a race – between an internet upload and his horse.
He burnt his photos on to a DVD and gave his computer a twenty-minute head
start because he had to get the horse ready. The horse not only won the race, but,
after riding home and feeding the horse, the photographer found the internet
transmission was still uploading. [Wolfgang Munchau, Kaput].
*My favourite story about Germany’s slow internet came from the deepest
Sauerland, a region of rolling hills and dense forests to the south-east of Dortmund.
A photographer needed to send a large photo collection to a printer that was 10
kilometres away. The total data volume was 4.5 gigabytes, which is about the size of
an average movie. He organised a race – between an internet upload and his horse.
He burnt his photos on to a DVD and gave his computer a twenty-minute head
start because he had to get the horse ready. The horse not only won the race, but,
after riding home and feeding the horse, the photographer found the internet
transmission was still uploading. [Wolfgang Munchau, Kaput].
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
Mikhail Bakunin.
Mikhail Bakunin.
