ARNOLD KLING
August 14, 2011
The Top Political Contributors
August 11, 2011
Gender and the New Commanding Heights
August 11, 2011
Jamie Galbraith Makes an Assumption
August 11, 2011
Macroeconometrics: The Science of Hubris
August 10, 2011
Real and Nominal Bond Yields
BRYAN CAPLAN
August 14, 2011
The Effect of Thumb Sucking on Income
August 12, 2011
The Voice of Cold, Hard Truth to All Would-Be Educators
August 12, 2011
Ability, Morality, and Prosperity: A Paper and a Report
August 11, 2011
The Theory of Time and Frittering
August 10, 2011
Male Variance and the Remnants of the Gender Gap
DAVID HENDERSON
August 9, 2011
Hayek in "Unbroken", Part Two
August 8, 2011
Hayek in "Unbroken"
August 5, 2011
James Bovard on the Peace Corps
August 4, 2011
Summers Way Off on FDR and 1941
August 3, 2011
The "Amazon" Tax
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Now if they could only do something about those darn electric utilities. How about power and internet service over water pipes? Shocking! Tesla envisioned wireless power transmission. I'm sure he'd be disappointed to know it hadn't happened yet.
I concur with the disdain for the plethora of small taxes on the phone bill. I also think that the easy solutions will win, and Arnold's (and Google's) Fiber-to-Wireless conception is less complicated than other solutions.
Will we melt from all the non-ionizing radiation? ;-)
I was unable to see the WSJ article, being a poor student I don't have a subscription. Is the wireless access being provided COMPLETELY free (seems unlikely) or is their public funding, or ads?
Amen on those abusive taxes! I have a $90 monthly phone of which a full 32% is tax related. Good God!
Richard, I'm under the impression it will be "free"... however, the definition of free, when governments are involved in negotiating the formal "local deal for free internet" may come at the price of being left with only one legal franchise provider for service, not unlike cable.
I wonder if free service will be chalk full of artery clogging advertising, and no other alternatives but the one legal free provider.
We shall see.. But if anyone can screw it up, it is politicians looking for extra $$ and more clout.
The real news is that all the elite liberal policy wonks claiming that the US was losing its advantage to those countries with centralized decision making were dead wrong. We will likely get it for “free” versus paying for it as a future debt liability. Again the market trumps policy wonks and politicians.