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From: KWALDMAN@WASH-VAX.BBN.COM
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Networks, who pays
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Date: 11 Nov 88 22:29:00 GMT
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\Now many are saying networks are to computers what roads are to cars
\(including the need to invest in infrastructure at a societal scale.)
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\	-Barry Shein, ||Encore||
	I tend to agree with the above.  But as long as we are here in the 
beginning of things lets use some of our wisdom generated from "cars and roads"
Let's NOT burden the taxpayers (i.e. you and me ) with another special
interest group, that lobbies for Uncle Sam to pay for networks, as happened 
with roads, etc.
 I would like to see something much more entrepreneurial and more
fiscally sound, maybe a "network" company or coop etc.. ( I'm sure you all
could come up with some good ideas)  
	I say that if new networks are setup with free market principles, we
will be able to bypass some of the problems that cars and roads have now. 
Yes, I know right now we don's have a "traffic" problem and technologies giving
us bigger bandwiths every day.  However, soon technology will go on to bigger
and better things and leave networks to the mundane the way it did cars.
The point is I DON'T WANT TO PAY FOR IT IF I DON'T USE IT, AND AM PERFECTLY
WILLING TO IF I DO. Remember TNSTAAFL.

	Thanks
	Karl
/*** Well now I quess, the socialists will flame me, but let's do
	it privately, you know my mail address ***/

The opinion expressed is mine, not my companies.