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Within the next decade, Moore's law will make the marginal cost of transmitting and processing any form of content over IP packet data networks (the Internet) cheaper than any existing means (newspapers, magazines, CDs, DVDs, TV and radio broadcasting). It will be the only means of telecommunications.
Transportation and communication are essential lower level human needs required for us to function on the most basic level as a society and to advance as a civilization.
Mankind has grown in capability and density and has found that the provision of its lower-level needs (survival, safety, interconnectedness) are most practically and most efficiently done by common effort (government provision or regulation).
Common effort has always been employed to fund or catalyze leaps in advancement of the society as a whole where the free market was inadequate or slow (aqueducts, roads, trans-oceanic exploration, canals, railroads, telegaph, telephone, airports, radio/TV broadcasting, interstate highways, cable TV distribution, space exploration and exploitation).
The fact that we do not treat high-speed IP packet network communications as an essential public utility that warrants the same kind of active public investment or regulation is inconsistent with the way we have treated all other essential utilities in the past and ignores the immense economic payback that will accrue from its more rapid widespread deployment.
Continued hesitation in adopting a policy shift that recognizes this at all levels of government dooms us to continued lost opportunity and the stalled mediocrity of the status quo.
Transportation and communication are essential lower level human needs required for us to function on the most basic level as a society and to advance as a civilization.
Mankind has grown in capability and density and has found that the provision of its lower-level needs (survival, safety, interconnectedness) are most practically and most efficiently done by common effort (government provision or regulation).
Common effort has always been employed to fund or catalyze leaps in advancement of the society as a whole where the free market was inadequate or slow (aqueducts, roads, trans-oceanic exploration, canals, railroads, telegaph, telephone, airports, radio/TV broadcasting, interstate highways, cable TV distribution, space exploration and exploitation).
The fact that we do not treat high-speed IP packet network communications as an essential public utility that warrants the same kind of active public investment or regulation is inconsistent with the way we have treated all other essential utilities in the past and ignores the immense economic payback that will accrue from its more rapid widespread deployment.
Continued hesitation in adopting a policy shift that recognizes this at all levels of government dooms us to continued lost opportunity and the stalled mediocrity of the status quo.
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