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We're number 13! Why is broadband seven times faster in Japan than in the United States? It doesn't have to be--and Democrats should pay attention.(DISPATCHES)
American Prospect, The, July, 2005 by Yglesias, Matthew
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> MOST AMERICANS BLITHELY ASsume that they live in the country that's the world leader in information technologies. Ours is, after all, home to the most recognizable high-tech corporate brands and the land where the Internet's fundamental architecture was first worked out. As a CIA assessment puts it, we enjoy "the largest and most technologically powerful economy in the world." Whatever dissatisfactions one might have with one's Internet access are assumed to be fundamentally technological or scientific in nature--better products haven't yet been invented, or if they have ...
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