VISFILES Should Standard Oil Own the Roads? Bill Hibbard University of Wisconsin - Madison For the past few years my favorite activity at the SIGGRAPH conferences has been the public policy courses and BOFs organized by Bob Ellis. Despite the bursting of the Internet bubble, information technology is the dominant force shaping the future. Because so much of the information flowing over the Internet is visual, SIGGRAPH members have an important role to play in the ways that evolving technology will affect human society. This column is my take on current public policy issues, ending with a short discussion of what will be the most important public policy issue of the future. Practical Freedom of Speech In liberal democracies you can say pretty much anything you like. In particular, you can criticize government policy and political leaders. The problem has been that few people could hear what you said unless you had access to mass media like newspapers, radio and TV. Now, the cost efficiency of computers and the Internet is changing that by enabling almost anybody to broadcast their ideas to masses of people. Information technology has created a new practical freedom of speech. As I described
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Should standard oil own the roads?
Hibbard, Bill
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, Volume 37 (1)
Association for Computing Machinery – Feb 1, 2003
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