News Analysis: The proposed FCC National Broadband Plan may just be social change we all can agree on. The federal government has already shown that it can manage to build out a network of highways under Eisenhower’s Interstate Highway System, among others. However, in this recession, is a broadband plan run by the government the public works project we’ve all been looking for?
– In the mid-1990s, the phrase quot;Digital Divide quot; came into being as
shorthand for describing the mass of disenfranchised Americans who were not
participating in the computing or the Internet revolution. On March 16, the
Federal Communications Commission wants to narrow that gap through an…