[Leica] Majordomo's ID Revealed in NYT

[John W Lee <jwlee01@alumni.poly.edu>]

Fellow LUG Subscribers:

An article appeared on page 1 in the "Business Day" section of "The New 
York Times," Monday, December 8, 1997, featuring Mr. Brian Reid and 
containing a full color photograph of him.

Here are a few paragraphs from the article, "Old Man Bandwidth: Will 
Commerce Flourish Where Rivers of Wire Converge": 
 	
	Three years ago, Brian Reid came away from a tour of California's 
        missions with an epiphany that today is transforming this 
        cornerstone city (Palo Alto) of Silicon Valley into the nerve 
	center of cyberspace.

	Mr. Reid, a computer scientist with the DIGITAL EQUIPMENT Corporation,
	had done pioneering work in the 1970's on the Arpanet, the computer  
	network that would evolve into the Internet. While playing tourist 
	with his fourth-grade daughter in 1994, he realized that each 16th
	century mission he had visited represented an experiment in urban 
	planning; those that combined the right economic, geographic and
	social factors eventually blossomed into cities.

	Just as centers of commerce sprang up along navigable rivers, around
	natural harbors and parallel to railroad tracks and majaor roads in
	in earlier centuries, Mr. Reid came to believe that the commercial
	hubs of the next millenium would take root around pipelines that 
	carry torrents of computer data.

	"Bandwidth is the delivery vehicle by which these companies sell
	their goods in the information age," Mr. Reid said last week. 
	"Bandwidth in the late 1990's is important for commerce in the same
	way as railroads were important in the 1890's and seaports were in
	the 1790's. It's the way you sell your products."

						- John W. Lee