> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/28/AR2007082
> 801990.html
>
> Japan's Warp-Speed Ride to Internet Future
> By Blaine Harden - Washington Post Foreign Service
>
> Yet the story of how Japan outclassed the United States in the provision
> of better, cheaper Internet service suggests that forceful government
> regulation can pay substantial dividends.
And it's not just Japan. Europe and much of East Asia are rapidly turning into video/videogame/media superpowers, thanks to public broadband and a wealth of other media commons.
The neoliberals won't talk about this, but the most functional part of the US computing infrastructure is the direct result of state planning and socialism: its superb university networks.
-- DRR