Dec 6
President-elect Obama has
pledged to start a massive public works program as part of his economic recovery plan. Why not build digital as well as physical infrastructure? It could start with municipal wi-fi in major cities. You can't argue the private sector is going to do it. They've given up. It would be a great public good to have a ubiquitous free tier of net connectivity and it would create a lot of employment while the system was going up.
