Wired Versus News Today

Google and verizon have revealed their so-called policy frame work, how you or i or anyone else can access the internet. what they agreed to was this, that fcc rules ensuring equal access to the internet should still apply to wired devices like a computer on your desk but those rules should not apply to wireless devices, such as mobile phones or smartphones or ipads. as technology changes, that is like saying dont worry, in the years to come, your manual typewriter will still be state of the art...

Explain the wired versus wireless issue and why that might threaten technological advance. >> okay. so what theyre talking about is not a matter of devices. its a matter of the broadband infrastructure. your computer and your wired or wireless connection at home that that computer connects to the internet on is a different kind of broadband infrastructure than the twhaun your cell phone is going to be on. thats what we hear about when you hear about 3g or 4g or the at&t and verizon mobile phone ...

>> well, you do have a point there. that is absolutely one of the things some of the proponents of this proposal are putting forward, is that the television industry in 1950, if you had imposed similar sorts of regulations on it we wouldnt be seeing hbo now. and the lack of regulation that google and verizon are proposing also potentially extends to technologies that dont even exist yet. like for example, one of the things people have been bringing up is medical monitoring broadband technology o...

>> thank you. >> lets start with the new part. explain the wired versus wireless issue and why that might threaten technological advance. >> what theyre talking about is not a matter of devices, its a matter of the broadband infrastructure. your computer and your wired or wireless connection at home, that that computer connects to the internet on, is a different kind of broad past infrastructure than the one your cell phone will be on. thats what we hear about when you hear about 3g or 4g or the...

Were on safe ground with him. >> thats right. >> so to speak. the thing about this is that really this conversation, this whole issue rips at the seams of the american psyche because it pits our admiration for anyone who flips out at work against our unrelenting and collective hatred of flight attendants. thats why were so excited about it. >> but to that point, 20 years as a flight attendant and he never apparently tried to strangle a passenger. i know this is a bad exit in all senses of the ph...