ON GOING FROM AT&T TO GOOGLE

CIRCLE OF LIFE

This clip from the Colbert Report offers the single best summary of the history of telephone company mergers in the U.S. over the last couple of decades (via Google's YouTube of course). 

It does an excellent job explaining how Cingular recently became AT&T.

So that's the history of telecommunications as we know it. 

It begins and ends with AT&T.

For a glimpse of telecommunications and cable as we MAY likely know it, take the time to read yet another provocative  piece by Robert X. Cringely.  It expands on the themes I've touched on in previous posts (here and here for example).

If he's right, it all begins and ends with Google.

Let's stay tuned.