[ih] infrastructure history [was: who invented the Internet]

[mfidelman at meetinghouse.net (Miles Fidelman)]

It really is disturbing how some folks pretend that government had no 
role in <name your infrastructure>.

Seems to me that there's an ongoing historical pattern:

Roads
Waterworks
Railroads (land grants, Army protection)
Telegraph (right-of-way grants, Army protection)
Telephone (right-of way grants)
Airplanes and Airlines (defense purchases spawned the aircraft industry, 
Air Mail spawned air freight and passenger service)
Radio and Telephone (airwave grants)
and so on......

Miles Fidelman


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