Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution-and Why America Might Miss It Audiobook (Free)

The world of fiber optic connections reaching neighborhoods, homes, and businesses will be as different from what came before as the world after the advent of electricity. The practically unlimited amounts of data we’ll be able to send and receive through fiber-optic contacts will enable a amount of digital presence that will radically transform health care, education, urban administration and solutions, agriculture, retail sales, and offices. Yet all of those transformations will pale compared to the enhancements and new industries that we can’t imagine today.

In a remarkable account combining policy expertise with compelling on-the-ground confirming, Susan Crawford shows the way the giant corporations that control cable and internet access in america use their tremendous lobbying capacity to tilt the performing field against competition, holding back the infrastructure improvements essential for the country to move forward. And she displays how cities and towns are fighting monopoly power to bring another technological revolution with their communities.