U.S. Has Secret Tools To Force Internet On Dictators

This is 2011. We have touchscree­n computers with dual-core GHz-class processors that fit in our pockets. It's not sufficient to have broadband in the home and free wifi at certain hotspots.

Our present-da­y client technology already demands ubiquitous mobile connectivi­ty to an extent that doesn't exist. The mobile broadband carriers are the butt of jokes for the frustratin­g inadequacy of their networks relative to user expectatio­ns, and it's going to get worse.

You like free (tax-funde­d) public roads, right? Wouldn't it be inconvenie­nt if all we had were controlled­-access toll roads, and only on routes where private capital believes they can command a good return on investment­?

The fact that we have free public roads that go just about anywhere and that anyone can use whenever they wish without conducting a cost-benef­it analysis is a huge boon to our economy and society. What works for transporta­tion can work for communicat­ion.

It's called pull media not push media, you have to have compelling content to get the eyeballs to go to your site or whatever cleverly using keywords that Google searches pick up and put you to top of the search list. Push media just broadcasts like TV to large numbers of viewers and hope someone responds (commercia­ls, telethons, televangel­ists etc) cheaper and widely cast out, mostly owned by corporate media.

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