The Briefing Room
General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Computers => Topic started by: corbe on March 04, 2019, 04:30:00 pm
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Government Is Decades Behind on Even Rudimentary Technology
Posted at 9:05 am on March 4, 2019 by Seton Motley
The mid-1990s inception of the private sector Internet – has led to the greatest economic and lifestyle leap forward in the history of humanity.
More than $1 trillion in private investment has taken us from 14K dial-up – to 1GB+ of speed. And hurtling ever upward.
And the whole thing is about to take yet another quantum leap forward with the ongoing, rolling rollout of the Fifth Generation (5G) wireless network.
The private Internet is now 1/6th of our $18 trillion economy – about $3 trillion per annum in economic activity.
The free speech-free market Xanadu that is the Internet – is entirely the creation of the free market. NOT of government.
Government has in fact been an ongoing, rolling impediment to this mind-boggling progress – not a contributor.
Local governments have been particularly awful. Engaging in massive shake downs of private Internet providers – imposing all sorts of exorbitant taxes and ridiculous mandates.
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https://www.redstate.com/setonmotley/2019/03/04/government-decades-behind-even-rudimentary-technology/ (https://www.redstate.com/setonmotley/2019/03/04/government-decades-behind-even-rudimentary-technology/)
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LOL, this is seriously an understatement.
I was recently working with OSHA to get some very basic compliance documents and they were using Word 3.0. They never even got Y2K compliant. Now, it likely was an old document they simply didn't save up and copied the file instead of opening and sending it, but still, it was hilarious seeing the little alert when I opened it.