President-Elect Obama Loves the Internet, Pledges to Bring it Everywhere
In today’s Change.gov YouTube video, President-Elect Obama sounded off on a few tech ideas that have, frankly, been a long time coming. He notes that the States ranks 15th in the world in broadband adoption, and lays out his plan to bring networking to all public domains.
Usually, Obama tosses in a mention or two about how important technology is, but today, we really see what he plans to do. He pledges to have broadband internet access available to all Americans, and promises to bring networked access to every doctor’s office, public school, and hospital. Part of Obama’s economic recovery plan will go directly to modernising public hospitals, first and foremost to digitise all medical records.
He does leave out certain important concepts, most importantly how he’s going to pay for all this, and I’m unclear on how exactly he plans to force ISPs into reaching into parts of the country where they can’t turn a profit. What do you guys think? [Change.gov]
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Often people ask how government will pay for projects. As if government is – like you and me – just a participant in the economy. But they are much more than that. Like banks can create money of account (non-physical money) out of nothing, governments can create wealth just out of the efforts of its citizens, without needing any additional money. While for us money is something that buys us food and shelter, for an economy as a whole it is just a lubricant that links the efforts of people smoothly together. For the economy as a whole, money is not a consumable.