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FORWARD WITH FIBER: An Infrastructure Investment Plan for the New Administration

Essay by Doc Searls
In 1803, Thomas Jefferson presided over the country’s first economic stimulus package: the Louisiana Purchase. For a sum of $23 million and change, the U.S. doubled its territory and became a world power.
Wouldn’t it be cool to do a deal like that today?
We can, through infrastructure investment — not just in roads, [...]

Posted 30 October 2008 § Interoperability of packets (Net Neutrality) § Open Infrastructure ‡ Comments (6)

Framing the Net

essay by Doc Searls
We’re always talking about something else. Regardless of the subject at hand, we have other subjects in mind that help us say what we mean. According to cognitive science, all of our thought and speech is metaphorical. That is, we understand everything in terms of something else.
For example, time is not money, [...]

Posted 16 May 2008 § Authority § People § Topics ‡ Comments (10)