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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RetiredNow who wrote (15375)	3/24/2010 7:16:05 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

The future is that everyone will be watching streaming HD quality videos over the Internet and streamed to your TV. Maybe, but that's as much about IP (Intelectual property not TCP/IP), battles, content creator business models, video server upgrades and other issues as it is about end user internet connection speed. And when those get sorted out, and demand climbs, than higher connection speeds will come around without any big need for government to step in to any large degree. It is literally no different than PC processor speeds. If it is that just supports the argument for not making this a government priority. ---- But I'm not saying anything remotely like "very high end internet connections are useless", or even "not important". The main point in my post was "Rankings on a high speed access list are a poor proxy for rankings as a country." My main new point is that investment in all sorts of new technologies are worthwhile, but if the government taxes away money to fund one, its playing the role of picking priorities, rather than letting people make their own choices, and market forces determine the most efficient ways of getting from here to there (or to some other there rather than an increase in download speeds from 7mbps to 50mpbs)