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Universal Internet Access Unlikely Until at Least 2050, Experts Say (theguardian.com)
Parts of the world will be excluded from the internet for decades to come without major efforts to boost education, online literacy and broadband infrastructure, experts have warned. From a report: While half the world's population now uses the internet, a desperate lack of skills and stagnant investment mean the UN's goal of universal access, defined as 90% of people being online, may not be reached until 2050 or later, they said. The bleak assessment highlights the dramatic digital divide that has opened up between those who take the internet and its benefits for granted and those who are sidelined because they either lack the skills to be online, cannot afford access or live in a region with no connection. "If there is any kind of faltering in the rate of people coming online, which it appears that there is, then we'll have a real challenge in getting 70%, 80% or 90% connected," said Adrian Lovett, CEO of the World Wide Web Foundation, an organisation set up by the inventor of the web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
AC or not, you don't deserve to be modded -1 for this. However let's review for a moment some examples of what should constitute a 'national emergency':
o Massive natural disaster, like an asteroid hitting the U.S.
o Nation-wide pandemic
o Military forces invading the continental U.S.
o Total collapse of the U.S. economy, worse than the 2008 recession
Now, for contrast, let's review some examples of what should not constitute a 'national emergency':
o Massive wildfires in any given state (state emergency, not national)
o Weather event causing widespread flooding (again, state emergency)
o Magnitude 9 earthquake (scary, but again, state emergency)
o POTUS' favorite baseball team not winning the World Series
o Brown people emigrating from South American countries massing on our southern border
Throwing a hissy-fit because you can't get your gods-be-damned useless-ass billions-of-dollars FENCE built is not a 'national emergency'
Declaring a 'national emergency' so you can STEAL money allocated to legitimate DISASTER RELIEF within the country you were sworn to govern, protect, and defend should be considered a CRIMINAL ACT and Congress should step in and give a resounding "HELL, NO!" to it if tried.
Hope that clears up any ambiguity on the issue.
In America the biggest problem facing us isn't immigration, guns, abortion, or tax rates.
Agreed. I would argue it is gerrymandering. Yeah our infrastructure is a problem but I'd argue it is a consequence of other structural problems - gerrymandering not the least among them.
We are living with an infrastructure of the early 20th century, which has been hacked and updated.
Don't know if you've traveled much but we're hardly unique in that regard. Much of western Europe has infrastructure that is similarly dated. Not saying they are better or worse but it's not a problem unique to the US.