Fiber

A timely and urgent look at how America is sacrificing its digital future, productivity, connectivity, social mobility, entrepreneurial growth, education, and every other public good, thanks to rapacious telcos, scumbag lobbyists, and negligent, cash-hungry politicians. . . . You should be reading this. -Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing I thoroughly enjoyed this volume from start to finish and recommend it as an excellent addition to any bookshelf. -Courteney J. O'Connor, LSE Review of Books If we can just finish the last mile for fiber to reach into households, Susan Crawford shows, we can unleash a revolution of economic growth, education, and health, and address inequality in a whole new way. Crawford shifts effortlessly from the heights of policy to the literal ground level and shows us the way. -Anthony Marx, President, New York Public Library By vividly describing a world filled with fiber-enabled technology as well as the perils and possibilities for achieving it, Susan Crawford has written a playbook for a fairer and more prosperous United States. -Andy Berke, Mayor, Chattanooga, Tennessee Engaging and accessible ... An indictment of national regulatory politics and crony capitalism and a love story about the plucky local governments overcoming the odds to bring their own communities into the twenty-first century. A microcosm of what ails America-and what nonetheless can give us hope. -Yochai Benkler, Harvard Law School