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Democracy & Technology Blog Cause, Effect

Bret Swanson
March 3, 2006
Broadband

Well, that didn’t take long. On Tuesday night the Indiana General Assembly passed the nation’s most far-reaching telecom deregulation, which Gov. Daniels has said he will sign. Today, Friday, I see telecom crews surveying rights of way around my neighborhood to lay new optical fiber. Let’s start the clock and see how long until the optical multimegabits reach my house. Ready, go….
-Bret Swanson

Bret Swanson

Bret Swanson is a Senior Fellow at Seattle's Discovery Institute, where he researches technology and economics and contributes to the Disco-Tech blog. He is currently writing a book on the abundance of the world economy, focusing on the Chinese boom and developing a new concept linking economics and information theory. Swanson writes frequently for the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal on topics ranging from broadband communications to monetary policy.