Healthcare IT Today January 6, 2021
Back in the late 90s, I read an article in a trade magazine and the piece made such an impact on me that the ideas articulated have stayed with me to this day. The article, “The Rise of the Stupid Network,” was written by a man named David Isenberg who worked at AT&T Labs Research.
In the article, Isenberg describes how telephone companies of the day were basing their infrastructure decisions around key premises, including the following:
- That expensive, scarce infrastructure can be shared to offer premium services
- That the communications infrastructure of the day (at that point, primarily circuit-switched calls) was the only communications technology that mattered and
- That the telephone company is in control of its network ...
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