[Asterisk-Users] asterisk based bbs

[Denis Galvão]

Im just trying to don't freeze the future... We have to think about it. If 
you think that a ADSL is too slow to put voice on... it happens today... 
but in the future!?

Nobody knows, neither me, what will happen, but we must have some 
brainstorming about newer models.

Denis.


Em Qua 01 Dez 2004 02:59, Joe Greco escreveu:
> > You're right! But I wrote that voice will be the next content that we
> > will use in networks environments...
>
> Um, voice was pretty much the first content used in networked
> environments (telegraph doesn't count because it wasn't generally
> "networked", at least in an automated manner).  Even today, most of the
> Internet runs over data circuits originally envisioned as carrying
> digital voice traffic.
>
> > of course, the model of exchanging information will upgrade too!
> >
> > You will make a GOOGLE search, just talking with your "voice browser",
> > something like:
> > "- Asterisk _plus_ BBS"
> > "- We found 30 references for Asterisk and BBS..."
> >
> > You will have your hands free to write an old email to your friens at
> > the same time that you ask and listen for a file stored in your
> > server...
> >
> > We gonna have another interface to the information, that means: more
> > information per second(i/s).
> >
> > BBS is an old idea, we must update its concepts.
>
> You're talking about a voice based PDA, not a voice based BBS.  BBS is an
> old idea, and it's better to not morph its concepts to mean something
> completely different than what it has historically meant, when more
> modern concepts exist that fit much better.
>
> That all said: There's nothing wrong with that idea.  I'll note that
> services like "inphone" currently accomplish some basic features along
> this line via a human operator interface; the natural evolutionary
> direction for this is to be a more virtualized voice PDA service of some
> sort like what you're describing.
>
> Regardless, while it may be handy in some circumstances, it doesn't
> really translate to more information per second.  Lots of people have
> cable modems and a phone line; I find very few of them running a modem on
> the phone line in order to increase their overall transfer speed to the
> Internet.  The trivial bit of added speed usually isn't of value.  The
> speed differential between cable and modem is roughly similar to the
> speed differential between eye and ear, and then there's the notable bit
> that many people don't efficiently {read,type} /and/ {listen,speak}
> simultaneously anyways. Humans are not naturally capable of concentrating
> on two things and doing so proficiently.
>
> I don't think that you're actually going to find people using a voice PDA
> to do Google searches while writing e-mail on their computer...  it's
> easier and faster to simply open another browser tab and go to Google,
> and then flip back to e-mail.
>
> Focus on when it'd be /really/ useful and usable:  when you don't have
> instant Internet access at hand, but you do have voice communications
> (I'll include the visually impaired as a class of people who don't
> necessarily have instant Internet access at hand, at least not in the
> same way most other people do)
>
> ... JG

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