These days, an RC car speeds the job pf pulling cable.
In the 80's, coax was used to connect our IBM PC's and IBM AT's on an engineering "PC network" to send simple text emails & attachments to to colleagues. The MIS Dept (Mgmt Information Systems) laughed off PCs. Their mainframes, with simple terminals deployed through the company, was the "Real Computer System". In Engineering, we deployed PC's, w/o help from MIS.
Nowadays, the "Mgmt Information Systems" Dept has been replaced with the IT Dept. "Mgmt" isn't why computing equipment exists. And workers have "internet", which wasn't on the horizon back then. An Engr needed info? Visit the Engineering Library, staffed by a Part Time librarian, to help you find the info, and keep many multitudes of paper-bound books in order.
Anyway, back then, we created a rat's nest of coax cables above the suspended ceiling in Engineering, a 75ft by 150ft building. Coax was pulled from point A to point E, for a home run. We used a weighted tennis ball tied to string. Get on a ladder, lift ceiling tiles at point A and point B, maybe 40 ft away. Toss the ball. Missed? Hit a support wire running down to the ceiling tiles? Pull the ball back and try again. Then ball toss from Pt B to Pt C. Then Pt C to Pt D. Rinse and repeat.
Many tosses and ladder relocations later, the coax was pulled, baluns installed, and we could send simple text emails (with attachments) to each other, on our monochrome IBM PC monitor. It sure beat the previous "Nike Net", where you put the info on a 5" floppy disk, and using your Nike's, walked to a colleagues cubicle to deliver the files. No RC Cars.
Seeing how far we've come in just 45 years makes me think that pulling copper wire may become obsolete. It's expensive (labor & materials), and for now, a "necessary evil", because there isn't a dependable alternative. Mesh networks, intelligent devices, maybe IoT, maybe improved power-line comm, maybe (fill in the blank), offers promise. Dunno.
I bet my grand kids will think pulling copper is quaint. Like dial-up phones, broadcast TV, cable TV, gas stations, walk in banks, mail delivery to a real "mailbox" down at the curb, and UPS trucks delivering small packages (that are better-delivered by drones).
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