Summary
As we enter a new decade, the Federal Communications Commission is working on a national broadband plan for the United States. You might not know this, but you should. And you might not think it applies to your daily life, but it does.
But how does it apply? What difference does it make? Let's travel back in time for a moment. Go with me to a Christmas in the mid- 1980s, and imagine what was on every kid's Christmas list then. It was a Commodore 64 home computer! Remember how it had to be run off of the TV screen? Remember the simplistic DOS-like screens? Not much of a computer by today's standards. But that was my gift then, and I thought it was the greatest thing Santa ever put under the tree for me.See the full content of this document
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Broadband Plan Is a Roadmap to Success
Now let's fast-forward to 2010. Let's see how far we have come from the mid-'80s. Encyclopedias? My children now do their homework research online with information that is updated constantly...
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