Fun_People Archive
3 Jan
The Central Office of the future
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 95 16:58:44 PST
From: Peter Langston <psl>
To: Fun_People
Subject: The Central Office of the future
Forwarded-by: bostic@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic)
Forwarded-by: Wendell Craig Baker <wbaker@splat.baker.com>
From: arctos@arctos.com (The Arctos Group)
On Thu, 29 Dec 1994 "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@alter.net> wrote...
>
> ...or my favorite, the cause of most telco outages according to
> Bellcore or people that study these sorts of things:
>
> "Human Intrusion Failure"
>
> It's got a nice ring to it :-)
At a symposium at MIT earlier this year, a representative of the
Communications Workers of America (CWA) began a presentation bemoaning
the loss of union craft jobs among telcos by drawing on the chalkboard a
sketch representing the telco C.O. of the future:
+--------------------------------------------------+
| *** |
| (o o) +-----------+ |
| ~ | ( ) ( ) | |
| /-+-\ | | |
| / | \ | | |
| o | o @@\ / | ( ) | |
| / \ ++ \=======/ | | |
| / \ /\ /\ | | |
| / \ / \ / \ | | |
| == == = = = = +-----------+ |
+--------------------------------------------------+
In this picture, there is a single man, a dog and a computer. The man's
job is to feed the dog and the dog's job is to bite the man if he touches
the computer.
© 1995 Peter Langston