The picture featured here is deeply unoriginal, and in some respects, represents theft of creative property. Such are the risks of posting images on the internet.
I read a brief article in today's Boston Globe about an effort by the FCC to make free* internet service available across the country. I think this is a marvelous idea, although I think it would be tragic if the executives at Verizon and Comcast were ever deprived of their hard-earned salaries. The internet is merely a transportation system, and the sums of money required to build, maintain, and improve it could easily be raised through some sort of user tax. In this regard, it would be remarkably similar to the Interstate Highway System. (I am somewhat skeptical of movements to privatize transportation infrastructure, by the way. I do favor tolls and Pigovian taxes)
*Yes, towers of ilium is distinguished by its rabid socialism, but I think that we can all appreciate the efforts of the smart people who created DARPA. Thanks to them, we are all better prepared to fend off communist aggression. Now, I'm feeling confused. I'd better go pay my cell phone bill so that my faith in capitalism is restored.
More architecture next time.
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