SEE THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET!

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SEE THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET!

Fri Jun 16, 2006 14:22

SEE THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET!
Want a Smart Network or Dumb Pipe? Congress is about to Vote, Make Up Your
Own Mind. It's About the Future of the Internet!
http://www.internetofthefuture.com/

The Hands Off creative team has rolled out their latest flash animation explaining the innovations that the Internet’s near future will bring. As more bandwidth is laid, how can it be used most effectively? What do these advancements mean for you, the consumer? This animation does a terrific job of visualizing this exciting future — you can click on the image below to see the full animation at another site:
http://www.internetofthefuture.com/

To the Editor:

Adam Cohen (Editorial Observer, May 28) predicts that ‘’the democratic ethic of the World Wide Web may be about to end,'’ echoing The Times’s alarmist editorials on the subject of so-called net neutrality (Feb. 20 and May 2).

What is truly alarming, and what actually threatens democratic access to the Web, is proposed legislation that would shackle broadband network providers as they try to find new ways to finance and build out the next-generation Internet.

If broadband providers are required to offer services for no charge to big content providers like Google and Amazon, that will stifle deployment and shift the costs of broadband rollout to consumers.

Needed investment in the high-speed Internet infrastructure may well be delayed, and rural and low-income citizens especially will have to wait even longer to enjoy the ‘’democratic ethic'’ of the Web.

There are already laws on the books to deal with Mr. Cohen’s hypothetical harms. What is about to end, if new laws put the government into the business of regulating the Internet, is a decade of innovation and benefits for all.

Mike McCurry
Christopher Wolf
Washington, May 30, 2006

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