The Great American Blog » Blog Archive » Solving problems with technology rather than law

This is an example of solving a problem through technology rather than by regulation and law, and that’s what we do in networking.

Until you run smack into a guild that’s been protecting it’s own for decades. How information technology avoided it for lo, these many years, I’m quite unsure. I know I thought we could always outrun the collectivists intellectually, and honestly, we have, but check what you’re paying for your iPhone’s data access to a third-world wireless network and how bloody happy you are since it’s blessed by Jobs. Check the a-holes Richard is sparring with.

I predict we, the people, will find the equivalent of the college football coach who first used the forward pass, and the rules won’t catch up until we’re dead. I fear that we won’t bother, though, since so many think this great networked stuff is a birthright, and President Changie McHope will deem it so, and then we’re all doomed.