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US Broadband Won't Catch Up With Japan's For 101 Years
An anonymous reader writes "Internet speeds of users nationwide shows that the United States has not made significant improvements in deploying high-speed broadband networks in the past year, and if the average US Internet speed continues to improve only at the same rate it did from 2007 to 2008, the country won't catch up with Japan's current download speed for another 100 years, according to findings released by the Communications Workers of America's (CWA's) Speed Matters campaign." With enough statistical mangling, nearly anything can be presented as plausible, but that's not enough to cover up my envy of Asian broadband speeds.
Yeah, there's also nationalized healthcare and less backwater religious nuts. Things are better in Europe, Japan, and even Canada.
-Matthew Riley "TofuMatt" MacPherson
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The United States is going through a transition period. They used to be the center of an empire, with all the wealth in the world flowing to their shores. Soon, they will be just another nation. The inward flow of wealth will stop, and a portion of their domestic wealth will be flowing out to the next empire. Being that they're a grey haired nation already due to a baby boom followed by multiple baby busts, they'll be significantly depopulated in relatively short order, further reducing their productivity.
The United States is not going to be doing shit in this area, any more than the British, the French, the Spanish or the Romans are. The United States is history. I would be very surprised if they even manage to hold themselves together as a nation at all once everything pans out.
-1 Uncomfortable Truth
If all the money spent on Iraq had been spent on broadband - where would the US have been then?
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
the US system encourages people to work hard, whereas laziness is often seen to be rewarded in the UK.
I am so totally moving to the UK.
Obviously you were joking, but unfortunately GP is right. Western European countries generally have a strong social security system with doors wide open for abuse.