What the Internet could look like

[TradeNurkicNow]

Now that net neutrality is dead and any hope of revival is being beaten into submission, I wonder if what everyone says will happen is true. If so, I don't think it will be all at once, but over the next few years, seeing something like the picture below wouldn't shock me at all

 

[SlyPokerDog]

LOL! Love it!

We're only a small technology jump away from some company coming out with NSA free satellite internet. I can see Germany investing in it, lol. Then shit will get crazy.

 

[Denny Crane]

InternetTwo will spring into existence to compete with those three. We'll offer unrestricted access.

 

[Natebishop3]

The government needs to step up and provide internet. This is bullshit. Access to the web is now on par with water, electricity, and gas.

 

[Strenuus]

Napster?!?!

Metallica is not pleased.

 

[Denny Crane]

The government needs to step up and provide internet. This is bullshit. Access to the web is now on par with water, electricity, and gas.

Google is doing high speed internet in KC. They'll own the whole internet if some cabal of last mile companies try to extort them. The free market will solve this.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

scurred.

 

[TripTango]

InternetTwo will spring into existence to compete with those three. We'll offer unrestricted access.

I am ready.

 

[TradeNurkicNow]

I am ready.

honestly, if we went back to BBS systems, I'd be happy. I could kick everyone's ass at LORD!

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

I ruled Barron worlds elite

 

[Strenuus]

Can't wait until HCP sees this.

 

[riverman]

InternetTwo will spring into existence to compete with those three. We'll offer unrestricted access.

Wouldn't they just have to call it Internet 2.0 though?

 

[jlprk]

InternetTwo will spring into existence to compete with those three. We'll offer unrestricted access.

How will the 2nd internet pay its bills without payments from customers and to sites? How will it compete with Internet I and take sites from it without paying sites more than Internet I, passing the increased cost to us?

 

[Denny Crane]

How will the 2nd internet pay its bills without payments from customers and to sites? How will it compete with Internet I and take sites from it without paying sites more than Internet I, passing the increased cost to us?

There wouldn't be a second internet, just a way to end run the current last mile providers. If those providers decide to provide something less than the whole internet.

There are plenty of technologies that are cheap enough and good enough to compete, but there's no incentive to invest the kind of up front capital required to churn existing cable customers. But if existing cable customers want to flee in vast numbers, there will be the incentive.

Free market keeps things in check.

As long as they don't buy the government to the point the end run strategies are outlawed.

 

[BigGameDamian]

I'm still waiting for the first fold up outdoor big screen television set.

 

[GriLtCheeZ]

I'm still waiting for the first fold up outdoor big screen television set.

As soon as it comes out be sure to start a thread about it please.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

http://www.davesblog.com/blog/2014/...utrality-victory-to-wage-war-against-netflix/

 

[ponderguy]

why can't we have nice things

 

[BlazerCaravan]

why can't we have nice things

Because the free market doesn't think we need them.

 

[TradeNurkicNow]

Because the free market doesn't think we need them.

And who are we to question The Hand?