Description The world of fiber optic connections reaching neighborhoods, homes, and businesses will represent as great a change from what came before as the advent of electricity.
She lives in New York City and Cambridge, Mass..
Reilly Clinical Professor at Harvard Law School.
About the Author Susan Crawford is the John A.
And she shows how a few cities and towns are fighting monopoly power to bring the next technological revolution to their communities.
In a fascinating account combining policy expertise and compelling on-the-ground reporting, Susan Crawford reveals how the giant corporations that control cable and internet access in the United States use their tremendous lobbying power to tilt the playing field against competition, holding back the infrastructure improvements necessary for the country to move forward.
Yet all of those transformations will pale compared with the innovations and new industries that we can\'t even imagine today.
The virtually unlimited amounts of data we\'ll be able to send and receive through fiber optic connections will enable a degree of virtual presence that will radically transform health care, education, urban administration and services, agriculture, retail sales, and offices.
Description The world of fiber optic connections reaching neighborhoods, homes, and businesses will represent as great a change from what came before as the advent of electricity
