Negative Space: AT&T
- Break up the Postal AT&T
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We have no idea what we’re missing by barring competition to the United States Postal Service. We’re in the position we were in 1980 when proponents of government monopolies were warning us of the horrors of ending the AT&T telephone monopoly.
- Natural monopolies: a 20-minute call for $8.83
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“A 20-minute call anywhere in the country will cost me only $3.33? What’s the catch?” The catch is that those are still outrageous monopolistic prices.
- Peer to peer email from 1980
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A fascinating vision of the convergence of e-mail and text messaging from 1980.
