Broadband and Sherlock Holmes

Check out this great article on broadband, Japan, and our failing telecom corporations. It highlights some of the growing concerns over the sedated pace with which fiber-optic connectivity is coating the country. While Japan's broadband access allows high-definition streaming and almost countrywide broadband access, U.S. users are limited to low bandwidth, low broadband saturation, and broken promises made by the phone and cable companies. The American people were promised a nationwide fiber-optic network, which has yet to come to fruition. As this remains the case, the US falls further and further behind the speed of, not only burgeoning Asian markets, but also many developing countries worldwide. Though I don't have the exact figures, I know that our country isn't even in the top 50 when it comes to broadband speeds.

So what does this mean for us? Well, as more and more of our investments go overseas, and the growth markets in Asian countries remain prosperous, it is likely that many future innovations in the entertainment and technology industries will be adopted for these markets. As the American growth curve continues to plateau, our country will begin losing out more and more of the inventive energies that are going into these rapidly changing industries.

Our hope is that these corporations, the government, or someone, will open their eyes to this coming reality see it as the global crisis that it may well become and take action to reconcile these gross misappropriations before our country falls behind permanently.

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As for reality, I am preparing myself for a reading of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Silver Blaze, my first crack at the canon of Sherlock Holmes since my childhood. I am reading this as part of literature course on detective fiction, which to my horror, is almost completely made up of logical reasoning!!! AAAAHHHHHH!!!!! No rest for the weary, hopefully a prosperous Holmes report to come...until then...