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...DIGITAL? WILL WE STILL TURN PAGES? WILL WE CLOSE THE BOOK ON BOOKS? WILL TINY ROBOTS BUILD DIAMONDS ONE ATOM AT A TIME? WHAT IS NANOTECHNOLOGY? WHAT WILL REPLACE SILICON? WILL MOORE'S LAW BE REPEALED? WHAT WILL REPLACE THE INTERNET? WILL CYBERCRIMINALS RUN THE WORLD? WILL MICROSOFT AOL OWN EVERYTHING? IS MONOPOLY INEVITABLE? IS TECHNOLOGY MOVING TOO FAST? WILL LOW TECH REPLACE HIGH TECH? CALEB CARR: KILLING TIME...
America Online is America's largest Internet service provider. Twenty-two million members get to the Internet through AOL. If it were a state, AOL would rank second in the nation in population, behind California. The company has a market capitalization of $125 billion--a bit less than the GDP of Denmark. And with its proposed purchase of one of the largest and most powerful media giants, Time Warner, many are beginning to ask, Should we worry about AOL the way the government worries about Microsoft...
...AOL has benefited from this neutrality. Because regulators breaking up AT&T forced the telephone company to respect e2e neutrality, consumers of telephone service have always had the right to choose the Internet service provider they want, not the ISP the telephone company is pushing. This built an architecture of extraordinary competition among ISPs. AOL, by delivering what consumers want, has prevailed in this competition...
This trend worries many. AOL fought restrictions when AT&T (after buying a gaggle of cable monopolies) proposed them. But now AOL, by buying Time Warner, is buying its own cable monopolies. And many are worried that AOL will forget its roots. Will the temptation to build its broadband network to protect itself against unallied content and new innovation be too great? Will AOL, like every other large-scale network that has controlled content and conduit, pick a closed rather than an open architecture? Will AOL become what it eats...
...costs of innovation. If to deploy a new technology or the next killer application--like the World Wide Web was in the early 1990s or gadgets to link the home to the Net may someday become--you first have to negotiate with every cable interest or with every AOL, then fewer innovations will be made. The Internet will calcify to support present-day uses--which is great for the monopolies of today but terrible for the future that the Internet could...