A new study from the UK shows that nearly 9 out of 10 UK internet users have broadband access.
This number has doubled since 2003.
As the article notes, this makes starting freelance home businesses much easier than before and so England is seeing these pop up everywhere.
As a result the old way of doing things like zoning for “residential” or “business” will change everywhere and yesterday’s bureaucracies will be dragged kicking and screaming into the present reality.
That’s frightening for them. The old government boys were used to doing things their way. When options came along for people to choose it was the old boy endorsed options of “Our preference A” or “Our preference B”.
In the US that meant our President could be Bush or Kerry but we’d be getting a “Yale Skull and Bones” man either way and the old media establishment would tell us what to believe about whatever happened.
Alternative channels though open up interesting possibilities that give freedom new opportunities and will leave the old guard scrambling to remain the old guard.
Take Ron Paul’s $4.3 million dollar donation day that left the old guard stunned.
Technology dispersed to the people causes outbreaks of innovation, change, and freedom that the old way of doing things can’t stand.
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