Obama, Net policy & the kindness of strangers | SOS eMarketing

Last year reports that the United States was slipping from Internet pioneer to digital dawdler as its global broadband penetration ranking had fallen from 4th to 15th in six years elicited a collective yawn. This is a surprising reaction from a nation whose forefathers, in the words of President Kennedy, “made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolution, the first waves of modern invention, and the first wave of nuclear power” and refused to let the nation “founder in the backwash of the [space] age...”