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May 20, 2005
Flying to Stockholm with Internet Access...
It turns out that the SAS flight I'm on happens to be equipped with Wi-Fi Internet Access.
The ad in the seat pocket reads:
"SAS Net Access. You've surfed the waves.
You've surfed the wind. Now surf the clouds."
So now, for the first time, I'm able to blog at 33,000 while sitting in seat 3E.
Sitting to the left of me are: Jonathan Askin, Marni Shapiro and Carl Ford. I brought my D70 on board just in case I would be able to take a few pictures and post them while I was flying. The pictures below were take right before we took off and again when we boarded the flight.
While Carl is currently working with me on my presentation for Tuesday, I've been focused on surfing the net and experimenting with my new connectivity.
If I had a headset connected to my PC, I'd love to try using Skype right now. The average ping times from my flight to pulver.com is 600ms, so real-time communication would be possible albeit a bit difficult.
I find it kind of ironic that it would take being on a flight to Stockholm to experience what the future will be like when US Airlines starts to roll out Connexion during 2006. One more reinforcement that, when one visits Sweden from the States, at least from a technology perspective, we are visiting the present future, from the present past. Perhaps the Vikings have rediscovered the New World once again. Let's hope they leave a road map this time so the rest of us can find it.
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Posted by jeff on May 20, 2005 07:21 PM | Permalink
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Comments
Connexion is going away!
as I always thought,
The take up rates required for any avionics connectivity project compared to the cost and reliability of your neighborhood coffee shop create a cost / service dilemma that inevitably disenfranchises users.
In simple consumer terms you get far better service for free, at a coffee shop with your $5 mocha , than you do in a plane for $30 an hour, after spending $2000 on you airfare.
Posted by: Symonty at June 26, 2006 01:39 AM
I forget who wrote that the future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed.
Posted by: Phil Wolff at May 24, 2005 03:20 AM
Hi,
It is always best to reply to the blog from the same flight, don't you agree?
Works great here too!
Nancy
Posted by: Nancy at May 20, 2005 11:10 PM
You may know something I don't, but Connexion has signed no US carriers, most of whom are in bankruptcy. Tenzing offers 128 Kbps IM and email service via Verizon on AirFone equipped planes from Continental, United, and US Airways. Tenzing will roll out a mostly over-water service that will offer speeds of 400 to 1600 Kbps symmetrically. Domestic service is likely to remain anemic until at least 2007 if not 2008 or later.
Posted by: Glenn Fleishman at May 20, 2005 07:31 PM