Technology

View the Press Release Senior Fellow George Gilder’s recent book, Silicon Eye, has been included in the longlist of the best in popular science writing for adults by the Royal Society. Silicon Eye is one of 13 selections comprising this year’s longlist, each of which will be considered for the prestigious Aventis Prizes, to be announced later this Spring.

Ma Bell’s back: Run for your lives! — or at least to the halls of Congress. That, it seems, is the overheated conventional wisdom. But the $170 billion combination of AT&T and BellSouth into the world’s largest telecom company is a perfectly natural progression of business and technology. The merger will rationalize a market beset by decades of political mismanagement. Read More ›

The same year Merian Cooper’s epic King Kong was produced (1933) he issued a sequel, Son of Kong. Little Kong was smaller, kinder, gentler, and like his pop did not survive the end of the movie. Ma Bell, like the original Kong, was captured, exhibited for public amusement, and ultimately destroyed. The son escaped capture, but perished when his island Read More ›

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Bret SwansonSenior Fellow(317) 663-0509 INDIANAPOLIS —”This week Indiana adopted the best communications law anywhere in the nation and took a bold leap into the 21st century,” said Discovery Institute senior fellow and Indiana resident Bret Swanson. “Amazingly, it’s already working. The bill was passed just Tuesday night, but already—just three days later—I have seen telecom crews Read More ›

Ten years ago, Washington gave us the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The law’s complex and intrusive implementation by the Federal Communications Commission and the 51 state utility commissions resulted in the $3 trillion technology crash of 2000-02 and has now plunged the U.S. to 16th in the world in residential broadband rankings. Yet for Hoosiers, hope abounds. Indiana is possibly Read More ›

This article, published by the South Bend Tribune, quotes Bret Swanson of Discovery Institute: “This is all about giving Indiana citizens and businesses the communication tools they need to compete in a global economy,” said Bret T. Swanson, a senior fellow for the Discovery Institute, a pro-deregulation think tank based in Washington, D.C. The rest of the article can be Read More ›

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Hance Haney(202) 558-7083 Cable Franchise Process Should Be Eliminated –Franchising Harms Consumers and U.S. Competitiveness WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Discovery Institute’s Technology & Democracy Project has urged the Federal Communications Commission to reform local regulation of cable services, which imposes unnecessary costs and delays on both incumbent cable operators and new entrants. “The U.S. lags behind Read More ›

Press Release Gov. Mitch Daniels (R-IN) today signed the nation’s most comprehensive telecommunications form legislation, according to the bill’s chief sponsor, State Senator Brandt Hershman (R-Wheatfield). Sen. Hershman’s press release quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Bret Swanson.

1. What is “statewide video franchising”? Statewide video franchising creates quick, one-stop-shopping for companies that want to build new broadband networks in Indiana. It simplifies a currently fragmented and inefficient system by moving video licensing authority from hundreds of Indiana cities, towns, and counties to the state.  In the 1960s, 70s, and early 80s, cities and towns granted franchises to companies who Read More ›

Before theFederal Communications CommissionWashington, D.C. 20554 In the Matter of: Implementation of Section 621(a)(1) of the CableCommunications Policy Act of 1984 as amendedby the Cable Television Consumer Protection andCompetition Act of 1992 MB Docket No. 05-311 COMMENTS OF HANCE HANEY DIRECTOR & SENIOR FELLOW – TECHNOLOGY & DEMOCRACY PROJECTDISCOVERY INSTITUTE Discovery Institute’s Technology and Democracy Project (TDP), founded in 1990, Read More ›