Wasting Asset

  

It was supposed to be this awesome dial-up modem factory. Remember the beep and whistle and then robottty sounding noises as dial-ups tried to find servers at the phone company in the heyday of AOL? There was this huge factory built to pump out 64k dial up modems. And then the world went cable modem with speeds 100x so that teenage boys (and their dads) could very quickly download, um, art films to their computers. That dial-up modem factor cost $100 million, but now it's just a wasting asset, not getting any better with time.

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