When passengers got stranded for hours at the airport, they banded together to voice their grievances.
And the result was the Air Passenger Bill of Rights.
Now that 4-G is here, at the very least, library and home should be able to have broadband access.
It’s our new grid. Studies show that those who have gone broadband, never want to come back to dial-up.
First wave: irrigation for agrarian society.
Second wave: interstate highways and railways for industrial society.
And now, smart grid and hyper-band for information society.
To have broadband access is to roll back the Henry Ford’s curse of suburbanization and separation (from the cultural centers), not to mention slavery to oil.
Our families have scattered in the map: CA, TX and VA.
The interstate made possible occasional Thanksgiving get-together.
The airline hubs do a better job, with a higher price.
But broadband (which enables social media file sharing) tops them all.
Connectivity go hand in hand with collaboration and coordination.
At least, to the early adopters.
Broadband made possible technology like video conferencing , touted since the break-up of ATT (whose Universal Access obligation remains to this day, much to the benefits of rural population who are in need of telephone and DSL).
With 4-G video conferencing, who needs the web cam?
We will all look like Helen Thomas on wide-angle shaky video.
Just make sure you pay attention to the lighting (don’t want to go down in history with a ghost-like image).
A picture is worth a thousand words.
With broadband, the age of connectivity found confluence with globalization 2.0 (jet age, WTO and containerizing.)
Have you noticed Made-in-Vietnam clothing lately? It’s number 8 on the chart of textile exporters.
Just make sure your inner man is in sync with your wardrobe.
We shop a few levels up from where we are, fashionably, and were told to dress where we want to be, professionally.
Or, if broadband is our right, then we might very well be that naked telecommuter I saw on a LA billboard.
It’s our broadband right to dress down at home. Whatever you want to label it, SOHO?
Thang Nguyen 555 