The 5th Utility
November 8th, 2006
Doc Searls and Elliot Noss gave a talk at ISPCON on the internet as the fifth utility (wasn’t available as I write this), behind water, wastewater-treatment, roads, and electricity. Concurrently, companies like Google are building out massive computing clouds that “support on-demand” services.
I’ve been thinking about this from a practical perspective lately as I look at our family bugdet and notice that we’re spending $45 on wastewater and water, $50 on electricity, $150 on various phone services, and $15 on the internet.
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