Real-time in society by nonreal-time in network

Abstract

The last century started with quantum mechanics, and at the end of the century we are enjoying our life by fruits originated and cultivated by quantum electronics. The technological impart on telecommunication has been great and marvellous and presently, in our perception about information, the meaning of distance, far or near, has been almost removed. The cyber-space and the real-space encounter each other by click and we feel the pace and the speed of our life is passing in real-time. Agility is the bottom line in businesses and alliance becomes nothing special by the Internet. Under the circumstance, the bit-greedy society suddenly comes out and optical communication businesses are dramatically expanding day by day beyond our forecast. Let us go back to ten years ago. had cultivated the fruits of quantum electronics in laboratories and succeeded in ultra long-distance broad-band transmission experiments. The question in front of the demonstration was who would use this technology? answered, We know it might be too much for telephone service. Please wait for the video era. When? and we were struck for a word. Back again now, we can put the different question, Why does the bit-greedy society appear now without video services? The paper addresses a part of the answer. On the contrary to our perception of life, the telecommunication network has changed from real-time to nonreal-time in the procedure, in which messages are endlessly and infinitely stored in the network. This special feature of the Internet forces us to push into the bit-greedy world without video services, or only with data services.