Reply #29: the scarcity paradigm

[sweetheart]

You're speaking as if we're suffering an ongoing long-term bandwidth shortage,
and *are we*?

The telco's have indeed managed to keep the existing operations improving in
bandwidth year on year on year, so quite possibly, the entire concern will
turn out to be nil.

So you're saying that this will create a public and a private internet, and
like with all public infrastructure in the US, it will be robbed blind that
it be slow and antique next to the slick paid-cable internet providers who've
sold the rights to search engine places in back room deals with christian fundies.

If that is indeed true, then i accept your point.

But scarcity of bandwidth, worldwide, could be a white elephant, and the
more serious regulatory issues to deal with internet boundaries. There the
US can cut off the rest of the world from "its" internet, and provide a 2nd
tier of service to expat US citizens like already the case... except that the
US websites will start to spoof different web pages to foreign IP's than
domestic ones, and publishing is done one-off that nobody in the world see
the same internet.

Competition in the future world mass market for internet services is going to
bundle and commoditize a lot of fluffy still-early-generation, technobull.
An enlightened vision of that commoditization needs be postulated.