"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.

How Technology and Markets Made Net Neutrality Moot

Before the courts have even ruled on Verizon’s lawsuit against the FCC‘s proposed Net Neutrality regulations, it appears that technological progress will make the wireless device neutrality portion of the [...]

Get Ready for Metered Wi-Fi

There’s a story in today’s New York Times on the impact the iPad is having on hotel Wi-Fi networks. Conclusion: Expect hotels to implement volume-sensitive pricing for Internet access via [...]

Remaking the Internet

The Time Warner Research Program has published my essay on the Internet architecture, Remaking the Internet: Taking Network Architecture to the Next Level. The essay examines the issues that make [...]

A Kick to the Head

I’ve written before about “cage match competition” in the broadband space – “space” seems like a better word than “industry” – in which the companies that deliver some part of the [...]

AT&T T-Mobile Merger can Bring LTE to Rural America

In a redacted letter posted to the FCC website, AT&T explain how a merger with T-Mobile would bring LTE to rural America.  Specifically, the increased economies of scale would allow AT&T’s upcoming [...]

Reacting to the Broadband Speed Data

Over on the Innovation Policy Blog I take a look at the FCC’s broadband speeds report and some of the reactions to it: The results are surprising to some because [...]

The LightSquared Kerfuffle

We had a great discussion about the ugly problem of GPS interference last week and why it can’t be oversimplified.  Yesterday, venture capitalist Philip Falcone – a major financial backer of [...]

Measuring Broadband Performance

Here’s the video from yesterday’s release event for the FCC’s new study on broadband speeds in the US. It’s not every day that a government agency releases a study that [...]

FCC Broadband Performance Data Vindicates ISPs

When the FCC released its 2009 Broadband Performance report last year, it concluded that broadband providers were delivering only half their advertised broadband performance to consumers.  This set off a [...]

YouTube Becoming Unusable During the Day

If you’ve been noticing problems with using YouTube during the day over the past few months, it is not your imagination.  The online video streaming for user generated content has degraded [...]