America at the Internet Crossroads: Choosing the road to innovation, wealth, and a supercharged economy.
(Hardcover)
By Michael Bookey
This provocative book will forever change your understanding of the Internet. Bookey makes a powerful and persuasive argument that the Internet is a road network and not an information service. Find out why building a ubiquitous and open access Internet road network is as vital to America's social and economic progress in the twenty-first century as the motor vehicle road network was during the twentieth century.
Discover:
- Why it is not in America's best interest for telephone and cable television companies to control the Internet
- How current Internet policy is failing America
- Why the Internet is bigger than the private market
- How a ubiquitous and open access Internet road network opens a vast new digital landscape for America to explore and develop
- Why everyone should have the right to digital mobility just as they have the right to physical mobility
- How a government financed and run Internet road network can save America trillions of dollars.
Praise for America at the Internet Crossroads:
"Provocative and informational, this controversial book brings much needed big picture thinking to America's Internet policy debate."
Cynthia Brumfield, President, Emerging Media Dynamics, and cofounder of IP and Democracy.
"Bookey offers paradigm-shifting yet practical proposals. Policy makers seeking answers to America's problems should read this book . . . today."
Mitch Shapiro, President of Broadband Markets, contributor to Broadband Daily, VoIP Monitor, and IP Media Monitor
"This book is a blueprint for action by every municipal government in America concerned about social and economic development in the digital economy."
Ed Stern, City Councilman, Poulsbo, Washington
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