Technology

This article, published by RealClearPolitics, quotes Bret Swanson of Discovery Institute: As Discovery Institute senior fellow Bret Swanson recently wrote, there is a “remarkable tendency for Federal revenues to hover around 18% of GDP (and for personal income tax revenue to gather between 7.5 and 9% of GDP), no matter if tax rates are high or low.” The rest of Read More ›

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The politics of telecommunications policy have changed, and not just because Democrats now control Congress. Over the last few years, the Republican-led Federal Communications Commission has deregulated the consumer broadband offerings of traditional telecom companies AT&T, Verizon, Qwest and others. These companies have responded by investing billions of dollars in next-generation fiber networks and new video services, such as IPTV. Read More ›

This article, published by TR Daily, mentions Bret Swanson of Discovery Institute: Speaking at the Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Council’s FTTH Conference here this afternoon, Bret Swanson, a fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Technology and Democracy Project, said Internet traffic would reach 700 petabytes per month by the end of the year – an annual rate of 8.4 exabytes. The rest of Read More ›

This article, published by The Heartland Institute, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Hance Haney: While noting that Internet business models are always evolving, Hance Haney, director and senior fellow of the Technology & Democracy Project at the Discovery Institute, said mandated market experiments can create problems. The rest of the article can be found here.

This article, published by The Cato Institute, quotes Bret Swanson of Discovery Institute: In addition, they want to avoid having to use only expanded physical infrastructure to meet what Bret Swanson in the Wall Street Journal recently called the “coming exaflood” of bandwidth-intensive applications, including video sharing, medical imaging, and digital surveillance. The rest of the article can be found here.

Just when you thought you needed another example of the law of unintended consequences, here it comes—this time from Federal telecommunications regulation. Amid the recent discussions of broadcast decency, á la carte, and media ownership at the FCC, few have noticed that the FCC is investigating an alleged scam of epic proportions. Soon after Woodrow Wilson finished making the world safe Read More ›

Liberals are hailing a report that calls for federal regulations to end the “structural imbalance in political talk radio.” Two think tanks, the Center for American Progress and the Free Press, complain that more than 90 percent of the programs on talk radio feature conservative hosts and themes while only 10 percent are “progressive.” Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., has promised Read More ›