Aram Zucker-Scharff

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Carriers resist becoming “dumb pipes” because there’s no money in it. A pipe is a faceless commodity, valued only by reliability and speed. In such a market, margins sink to zero or below zero, and it becomes a horrible business to be in.

“Dumb pipes” are exactly what users want. They want the carriers to provide fast, reliable, cheap mobile data connectivity. Then, they want to get their apps, services and social products from, you know, the Internet.

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– Why Google wants to replace Gmail.

theatlantic:

Net Neutrality: A Guide to (And History of) a Contested Idea

If net neutrality is so important, why is it so controversial? It’s complicated.

Read more. [Image: Reuters]

theatlantic:

Net Neutrality: A Guide to (And History of) a Contested Idea

If net neutrality is so important, why is it so controversial? It’s complicated.

Read more. [Image: Reuters]

theyear1968:

On December 9, 1968, Doug Englebart and his team from the Augmentation Research Center in Menlo Park, CA, presented what would become known as “The Mother of All Demos” to the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco.

Among other highlights, the 90-minute live demo introduced the world to the computer mouse, word processing, hypertext and video conferencing. You can watch the whole presentation in the Doug Engelbart Video collection in the Internet Archive.