"For $XXX dollars, you can drive as fast as you want."
What would be the results of such a free-market solution to highway traffic control?
The Internet is to the 21st Century what the interstate highway system was to the 20th.
In the next few years, a new economy based on communication will supplant transportation...
In the next few years, a new economy based on communication will supplant transportation...
- Most commerce done via The Internet instead of the highway.
- Most government done via The Internet instead of employees spending hours driving from home to office and back.
- Energy needs dramatically reduced from today's levels due to people working from home and neighborhood offices.
- Many unneeded office buildings will be replaced with renewable energy collectors and greenspace.
- The need to rebuild much of the country's transportation infrastructure will be relieved by the reduced amount of traffic.
- The cost of government will decline.
- The cost of production will decline.
- Economic opportunities increasing with the dramatically lower costs of production.
- The country, as well as the world, will become a better place.
But only if The Internet, like highways, is recognized as the vital public good that it is. So vital, that it must be managed for the benefit of all.
Every other developed country recognizes this. If the United States is to be at least as successful as they, we must also insure that The Internet remains as equally available to all as highways.
The future of the U.S. economy, and thus U.S. democracy, is in your hands.