Great Editorial by Susan Crawford about the changes that need to be made regarding access to technology/Internet.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/24/opinion/how-to-get-high-speed-internet-to-all-americans.html?hp
People like to talk about how we need to become America the Innovator again. But when Comcast and Time Warner dominate the market for high speed internet, a lot of people miss out. I'm fortunate enough that I live within the range of a small wireless company called USI Wireless. They partnered with the City of Minneapolis to really get themselves all over the city, so people could easily have access to cheap(er) wireless internet access.
It's so easy to lament about past America, to wish we could be top of the crop again. Historiography has a term for this- frontierism (Look up "Frontier Thesis" on Wikipedia for a little background). It's a reaction to the Turner Frontier Thesis and says that we like to think back and romanticize our past- but that's just not how it is. Yes, I am very much summarizing.
But my point is this- we can wish and lament all we want, but it is not an easy fix. There are many pieces to the puzzle and this is just one. It will take a lot of overhaul and work to see even small improvements.
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