Our system has encouraged monopolies, both market share and geo-monopolies. The top 3 cable and telcos share over 70% of the ISP and entertainmentmarketplace. When Content is controlled by access and access is limited, there is little or no transparency. Without forced separation of Content and Broadband, too few control access. Why do you think there is no "ala la carte" marketplace for Content? Because "packaging" keeps out new entrants who could bid, in a transparent and competitive marketplace with reasonable access, on "pipeline" capacity, delivered over Internet (wired and wireless) as a "choice." Another thing; New Release movies could be offered on a pay-per-view basis, probably doubling the size of the entertainment industry (as long as they didn't get greedy-a faint hope I'm sure).
The countries ranked ahead of us are learning from our mistakes, broadening the capacity and appeal of Internet for Education, Health Care, Government, job training, and on and on.
We have so much technology opportunity that is being held back by monopolistic pricing and practices that it creates multiple lost opportunities. In just a few years, the Internet will be THE venue or commerce, both in the U.S. and world-wide. Entrepreneurial opportunities of today will magnify, maybe exponentially. The "creative destruction" of the Internet applied to traditional methods of commerce, distribution, Health and Education, will mean tens of millions of new, and different jobs.Part of the U.S. problem is that instead of leading, we're following.
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