Larry Lessig on the McCain Technology Plan
I wish Larry had talked about the period prior to the commercial interchange agreement, when public money pushed the then-UUCP and FidoNet envelope, but he does pretty good starting from the end of that epoch, the late Clinton years, to the present.
Via CircleID.
We do talk about this on the operators lists. In Japan a real 100m/100m is about USD30/mo. In the States
USD90/mo gets 256k/768k. As far as the internet is concerned, the United States is a third world country, and that's before you take a step outside the CATV loops of TimeWarner and Comcast, or beyond the 5,000 foot radius from a local exchange carrier's central office. The Bush years have been years of profit taking, not innovation or investment.
