Remember when the US Interstate Highway system, designed to get people out of cities fast in the event of an emergency, failed its first and only test during the anti-Vietnam riots in Washington in 1968? (No, I wasn’t born then): at Comdex/Spring in Atlanta yesterday, our man on the spot, Chris Rose was geared to send stories from his laptop straight back to our server until on deadline, he found all phone lines from Atlanta were busy (shame on you, BellSouth Corp) and ended up having to low-tech fax it back using a direct facsimile line.
