The article says “High-speed networking enables new human collaboration at a profound level, and such collaboration will radically change the way we think.”

The only collaboration I can think of is gaming and maybe porn…

Notice every article about Korea’s broadband included on-line gaming? I guess that’s collaboration. Korea’s economy is still struggling, though.

You think the people running things are reasonable and prudent?8^)

Yeah, right, and if frogs had wings they wouldn’t bump their butts so much either.

Just for example, I am into online gaming, both development and playing, and we are hitting a wall with whats possible with current broadband limits. Going from 1.5mb to 100mb opens up a ton of possibilities in gaming alone.

Actually, they’ll just cut a check to the bells, who will just piss it away like they did the last time we gave them a pile of money for building out Internet infrastructure.

# 14 roland said, “Bottomline, communication is a right for each person.”

Really? Where did you read that?

Actually it is in the US Constitution. All rights not specifically granted TO the Federal Government are maintained by the states or the people.

So in reality the dirt farmer in the middle of nowhere does have a right to have high-speed Internet. But, they also have a right to pay for it and suck my money out of my wallet.

So let the libtards buy their own damn Internet connection.

Oh yeah, if it is in the libtard way of thinking that we have to have high-speed Internet to get American goods offered around the world if on the other side of your mouth you are saying all our product manufacturing has gone overseas.

Make up your little minds.

Nevertheless, I’m sure that this confiscation of wealth would be “good for the economy.” Just like ensuring that everyone has a 4-year college education regardless of cost or willingness to pay would be a “good thing for the economy.” As would ensuring that everyone has “affordable” transportation would be “a good thing for the economy.” And “affordable, accessible” healthcare. Oh, and let’s not forget entertainment–if people don’t get good leisure time, they’re not as product at work, so let’s have government take some _more_ money from some folks who have it, and give it to folks who don’t.

Come to mention it, a good breakfast, lunch, and dinner is also vital to a productive workforce, and so parents, here’s your new government-mandated weekly menu. If you can’t afford the ingredients, no matter–government will… yep, you guessed it. And if the government runs out of people to take money from, why, it’ll just borrow or print some more. It can do that forever, right? I mean, it’s been doing it for years already.

Now that I think about it, really, government would be better at making all of these decisions for us. So, let’s just skip the middleman and let government take right over. Because, you know, “High-speed networking enables new human collaboration at a profound level, and such collaboration will radically change the way we think.” And only government can make that happen for us.

Omama has implemented a new legislative policy. Don’t ask, don’t tell.

So, don’t ask.

So this has to be about consumers or employees getting broadband.

Consumers use broadband to watch movies and play games; they already watch movies and play games.

Employees that telecommute or work remotely don’t live in distant rural areas, they live in suburbs.

And people who live in distant rural areas can afford the $100/mo for satellite broadband.

Where is this problem?

This is is way over your head guys. Please leave this to professionals. We are not in the agriculture business anymore and hardly in the industrial revolution.

Really, just think about what to worship or the infinite ways not to have sex.

As it stands, that USA-specific cancer hurts our IT competitiveness and encourages outsourcing.

Accessible and timely information might speed up some areas of the economy but it hardly defines it or even controls it. Broadband… the accelerated evolution of ideas shared on a huge scale in a short time… the fruition of which is mainly the development of products for consumption… is the reason we are in this mess. Show me a model where broadband will save us from our greedy, self important selves, and then I’ll believe 100 Mbps will do little more than provide better movie viewing to the “give a damn” impaired.

NOT!