http://telephony.net/broadband/creating-a-new-world-one-city-at-a-time/ Broadband for the 21st Century Wed, 09 May 2012 15:20:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://telephony.net/broadband/creating-a-new-world-one-city-at-a-time/comment-page-1/#comment-37 Mark Hewitt Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:42:00 +0000 http://telephony.net/?p=524#comment-37 You are correct however the Black Networks will be the evolution of a third generation of the Internet and it will be operated outside the boundaries of any single sovereign nation.  What our leaders must be able to do is to take a World view where our culture and economies exchange based on value and not leverage. Mankind has enough capability to feed the hungry and educate the children of the world --- all we must have is the willingness to do what is hard - make our choices based on our mutual self interests. You are correct however the Black Networks will be the evolution of a third generation of the Internet and it will be operated outside the boundaries of any single sovereign nation.  What our leaders must be able to do is to take a World view where our culture and economies exchange based on value and not leverage. Mankind has enough capability to feed the hungry and educate the children of the world — all we must have is the willingness to do what is hard – make our choices based on our mutual self interests.

]]> http://telephony.net/broadband/creating-a-new-world-one-city-at-a-time/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Rig144 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:06:00 +0000 http://telephony.net/?p=524#comment-36 It is my belief that we are no longer an economy or an ecosystem that can survive without consideration to global econonomies or the global ecosystem.  We are now all interdependent on each other and it will be our responsibility to evaluate the effects of our various efforts and industries on others on the other side of the planet as well as those just in front of us.  It is my opinon that those that grasp this thought and raise their consciousness to a level beyond what they can see with the naked eye will be successful in obtaining their goals while making the world a better place.  I know that may sound Poly Anna so to speak, but those that truly deserve to succeed will and can and those that try by intimidation, espionage, and aggression, will succeed but only temporarily..long term it is unsustainable, as I see it. It is my belief that we are no longer an economy or an ecosystem that can survive without consideration to global econonomies or the global ecosystem.  We are now all interdependent on each other and it will be our responsibility to evaluate the effects of our various efforts and industries on others on the other side of the planet as well as those just in front of us.  It is my opinon that those that grasp this thought and raise their consciousness to a level beyond what they can see with the naked eye will be successful in obtaining their goals while making the world a better place.  I know that may sound Poly Anna so to speak, but those that truly deserve to succeed will and can and those that try by intimidation, espionage, and aggression, will succeed but only temporarily..long term it is unsustainable, as I see it.

]]> http://telephony.net/broadband/creating-a-new-world-one-city-at-a-time/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Chuck Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:05:00 +0000 http://telephony.net/?p=524#comment-35 While this is only a gut feeling at this time, I think it's inevitable that governments will legislate and enforce policy regarding the Internet, and there will be those that will run operations that will attempt to undermine it.  One reason that SOPA and PIPA are such bad ideas is that I think they create a 'blacknet', and every dollar that the government spent enforcing that policy would be made treble by illegal organizations that would be able to exploit it.Your mention of Obama demonstrates exactly what government doesn't understand.  Obama thinks that employment is men with hammers and blue collars making i-phones, when in fact the reason that China is making the i-phones is the globalization policy our government has force-fed the planet to it's own people's extreme benefit.Politicians are not economists or technologists.  The vast majority of them are lawyers.  How could they possibly understand?  While this is only a gut feeling at this time, I think it’s inevitable that governments will legislate and enforce policy regarding the Internet, and there will be those that will run operations that will attempt to undermine it.  One reason that SOPA and PIPA are such bad ideas is that I think they create a ‘blacknet’, and every dollar that the government spent enforcing that policy would be made treble by illegal organizations that would be able to exploit it.Your mention of Obama demonstrates exactly what government doesn’t understand.  Obama thinks that employment is men with hammers and blue collars making i-phones, when in fact the reason that China is making the i-phones is the globalization policy our government has force-fed the planet to it’s own people’s extreme benefit.Politicians are not economists or technologists.  The vast majority of them are lawyers.  How could they possibly understand? 

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