Fast Company
Why ‘rural broadband’ may no longer be an oxymoron
Traditionally, the story of rural broadband in America has ended with a two-letter word: no. No, the local cable or phone monopoly isn’t going to extend service to this county or that town.
The big cord-cutting story in 2019 was outright defection from pricey TV packages (Fast Company)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 02/25/2020 - 10:21Op-ed: The T-Mobile/Sprint merger will increase inequality in the US (Fast Company)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 02/14/2020 - 11:05Facebook and TV dominate political ad spending, suggesting advertisers think older voters are key to winning (Fast Company)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 02/12/2020 - 15:56Trump’s data team crushed Democrats in 2016. Can this small startup even the score? (Fast Company)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 02/03/2020 - 10:12Op-ed: I helped draft California’s new privacy law. Here’s why it doesn’t go far enough (Fast Company)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 01/03/2020 - 06:13The internet’s last great myth is finally dead
The 2010s are defined by our total absorption into the digital. Engaging online quickly became a necessary part of being a person. “As more people began to register their existence digitally, a past time turned into an imperative: you have to register digitally to exist,” journalist Jia Tolentino writes. With that, she said, came the commodification of self, which keeps us endlessly tethered to the web, either as a means of self-promotion or as a way of feeding the human compulsion to connect. As we’ve remained here, our internet selves have grown more robust.