"enhance" the internet
Here's
an interesting analysis of the problems in the telecommunications industry, which (as an added bonus) has the kind of cynicism I appreciate:
So if you hear that somebody is going to "enhance" the Internet -- to make it more efficient, to Pay the Musicians, to Protect the Children, to thwart hackers, to enhance Homeland Security, to find Osama, or whatever -- this is almost certainly propaganda from the powerful businesses that are threatened by the Internet. Remember that the Internet became the success it is today -- and the threat that it is to existing telcos -- because it is a Stupid Network, an end-to-end network.
(link via
Boing Boing)