"Pushing the multi-mega-ton jumbo jet of human thought-style backwards a few inches, back in the direction of dream logic, might be the Internet's greatest accomplishment. The best is yet to be."

-David Gelertner

The Internet has been called the greatest advance since the assembly line, the printing press, even the capture of fire.  At hightechforum.org, we naturally care about the Internet – what trends are emerging, and what challenges do we face in extending, regulating and managing the Internet, especially as it becomes more mobile?  What will the Internet look like in ten years, or after its next billion users comes online?  In the articles below, the people who built the Internet, run the Internet, and improve the Internet offer their perspectives.

Richard Bennett on “The Reality of US Broadband Performance”

Our fair editor has a great piece in TechCrunch, debunking the arguments constantly peddled by Susan Crawford and others about inferior US broadband networks — the supposedly overpriced and shoddy [...]

ICANN and the Registrars

ICANN, the organization that runs the domain name system for the Internet, is a strange organzation that mainly operates outside public view. It manages several tasks that are necessary to [...]

U. S. Broadband Speed Slightly Better in Latest Akamai Report

Akamai published the Q4 2012 edition of their State of the Internet report yesterday, and it’s pretty much as expected: the trends that have been evident since 2010 are continuing. [...]

Smartphone Dominance

A picture paints a thousand words.  [H/T Fortune]  

The Whole Picture of American Broadband

I’m happy with the volume (if not necessarily the quality) of reaction to the report on the state of American broadband networks we just released this week at ITIF, The [...]

IP Investment, Economic Growth and the FCC

Alton Drew has an interesting post today at his Law and Politics of Broadband blog – his takeaways from a panel discussion he attended at Georgetown University on regulation and [...]

Nuclear Networking

This past week I had the good fortune of going to Barcelona for a workshop on Recursive InternetWork Architecture (RINA), hosted by i2cat, produced by the Pouzin Society, and presenting work done [...]

GigaOm Review

Three posts on the GigaOm blog deserve your attention as each one highlights a central issue in network policy. Consider this summary and analysis. Blair Levin, the czar of America’s [...]

This Mobile Life, Baseball Edition

I’m a big baseball fan, more precisely a big Oakland A’s fan, so being out of town on for the last game of the regular season was a big challenge [...]

Van Schewick’s View of Net Neutrality and Quality of Service

Network Quality of Service (QoS) is the technical issues that lurks behind the policy issue of net neutrality. While there are many subtle variations of net neutrality, the concept as [...]