The world of fiber optic connections reaching neighborhoods, homes, and businesses will be as not the same as what came before as the world after the advent of electricity. The practically unlimited amounts of data we’ll have the ability to receive and send through fiber-optic cable connections will enable a amount of virtual presence which will radically transform health care, education, metropolitan administration and providers, agriculture, retail product sales, and offices. However all of those transformations will pale compared to the improvements and new sectors that we can’t imagine today.

In a remarkable account combining policy expertise with compelling on-the-ground confirming, Susan Crawford uncovers how the giant corporations that control cable and internet access in america use their tremendous lobbying power to tilt the taking part in field against competition, holding back the infrastructure improvements necessary for the country to move forward. And she displays how towns and towns are fighting monopoly power to bring the next technological revolution with their communities.