Ray Marshall wrote:
The major question is, would they want it and use it if they had Internet
service. I would contend that a very large proportion of them would not
want it, for various reasons:
Trying to decide who will want something that hasn't been created and
delivered yet is ...well, not very useful. The internet of the future
(five years from now) will be very different from what we have today,
especially if access to it is free and the offerings over it are
expanded exponentially as they almost surely will be.
Before Minneapolis decides to spend scads of money to provide universal
Internet Service in the City, including the border areas where residents
probably will be able to get it from adjacent communities, lots of
discussion needs to be had. We are not a Mountain View or a Sunnyvale.
Right now, I would vote for more Police and Community Service Officers than
I would for municipal broadband.
And I say, before Mpls spends scads of money we need to have more
discussion to determine whether or not spending the money is even
necessary. Somebody like Google might build it for us. There's lots of
money to be made delivering products and services over a free public wifi.
Dan McGuire
Ericsson
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