A massive tech facility was constructed in my city. It's an amazing place of brand-new and contemporary offices. Technically, it's not even finished yet, but already eager tenants have moved in: massive corporations, seed ventures, and academic think-tanks all busy buiding the World of Tomorrow. When you look at the gleaming mothership architecture, sprawling lawns, and blinding glare of mirrored windows, you can't help but think "Caution: Futurists Crossing"
Unfortunately, all is not well in the EPCOT of the New Millenium. In the race to inhabit the hippest place for 50 miles around, a little bit of forethought goes a long way:
None of them has Internet access.
Well, let me put that a better way: the grounds are not equipped for Internet access. The first companies through the gate probably spent a good portion of 2007 desperately scrambling for whatever they could cobble together: Satellite broadband? Cellular wireless? Get us whatever you can--we've got a future to plan here!
Teh Notworkz has since been brought...well, into the ballpark. One particular tenant was told to run their pipe to the box at the corner of their property--that's where the data firehose began. Contractors were called, machines rolled in, and as quick as you can say, "Wow! Look at all the dirt!", a ditch was dug.
To the wrong corner.
I can't imagine which player in this comedy of errors was the first one to figure out what went wrong: was it the Construction Contractor, who at the end of his long dig, found himself staring at an empty box? Maybe it was the Service Tech, who rolled out a spool of fiber, only to find nothing to connect it to? Or the builder, eyeing the new ditch and pondering how soon he might get someone out there to finish the job?
Whatever the case, take it as a cautionary tale: when the aliens land and we're all invited back to AlienWorld for a big party, maybe you should ask a question or two before you hop aboard the giant Space Ark.
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