Broadband without Internet ain't worth squat

[Commentary] We communications professionals risk forgetting why the networks we build and run are valuable. We forget what we're connecting to what. We get so close to the ducts and splices and boxes and protocols that we lose the big picture. Somewhere in the back of our mind, we know that we're building something big and new and fundamental. We know, at some level, there's more than business and economics at stake. In the big picture, We're building interconnectedness. We're connecting every person on this planet with every other person. We're creating new ways to share experience. We're building new ways for buyers to find sellers, for manufacturers to find raw materials, for innovators to rub up against new ideas. We're creating a new means to distribute our small planet's limited resources.