After watching the Super Bowl ads I've decided that eventually the cyber attack that takes down the Internet will not come from China, but from a bunch of 13 year old teens watching Twilight on their mobile devices that are receiving streaming video. You should have noted several Super Bowl ads touting mobile devices for watching TV, or other streaming video
Video is a bandwidth hog and a mobile bandwidth hog at that. We do not have the capacity (yet?) to handle the technology that is coming our way. We are 19th on a list that compares the Internet Speeds of various countries . Japan, South Korea and France are way ahead of the pack.
You can read an interesting article on Who Rules the Net? which speaks to how much government regulation should occur. Or, should the free market rule? I suppose no one would want the banks to run the Internet, but with size and buying power you can get a great deal of control in the hands of only a few players.
While the Internet has been the wild, wild West for some time, it is appropriate that the federal government play a role. The article argues about what that should be so that innovation is not inadvertently stifled.
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Video is a bandwidth hog and a mobile bandwidth hog at that. We do not have the capacity (yet?) to handle the technology that is coming our way. We are 19th on a list that compares the Internet Speeds of various countries . Japan, South Korea and France are way ahead of the pack.
You can read an interesting article on Who Rules the Net? which speaks to how much government regulation should occur. Or, should the free market rule? I suppose no one would want the banks to run the Internet, but with size and buying power you can get a great deal of control in the hands of only a few players.
While the Internet has been the wild, wild West for some time, it is appropriate that the federal government play a role. The article argues about what that should be so that innovation is not inadvertently stifled.
