Technology Will Make It So

Our President-elect, yesterday, in his address to the nation, stated that it is his intention to foster great strides in internet access. He believes that children should have access no matter what the economics of their household. He further states that hospitals should be easily connected to each other, allowing for more of our citizens to receive the very best care.

Who can say no to that?

There are enough reasons for our internet access to be the best in the world to take a couple of hours to enumerate them all, but the single best one is that we invented the technology, and the journey is not over yet! This trip with broadband technology is not a 50-yard dash, it is a mile run. It is not enough to have ‘most’ of the country be able to have broadband, especially when certain companies (that shall remain nameless) carp about what broadband is, using speeds so slow that extremely small screen size is the only way to stream video. (256k down with 64k up is not broadband, it is ‘tease-me-with-slightly-better-than-a-crappy-modem’ band)

It is unacceptable that the United States ranks 15th in the world in broadband adoption. Here, in the country that invented the Internet, every child should have the chance to get online, and they’ll get that chance when I’m president - because that’s how we’ll strengthen America’s competitiveness in the world.

Go, Mr. President! Yes, he is already my president, because I knew I was not one of those George Bush cared about from the start. But seriously, it is widely accepted that all the action is coming from Chicago these days, and nothing of interest is happening in Washington.

When we have broadband for the nation, the quality of life will go up in so many ways; the mere fact that the infrastructure gets updated, or installed, will mean so many new jobs! That fiber optic cable won’t pull itself!

It is also reassuring each day that the man at the top gets the idea that information is power. Each day I wake up knowing my vote was a good one.

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History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s dam is the history we made today.Henry Ford