Fast Company
Climate change, the digital divide, infectious disease, and unemployment are the top global risks (Fast Company)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 01/19/2021 - 06:33With Verizon-WeWork deal, 5G’s next destination is the great indoors (Fast Company)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 12/22/2020 - 14:184 ways to network in an all-remote world (Fast Company)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 12/17/2020 - 10:24Comcast’s 1.2 TB data cap seems like a ton of data—until you factor in remote work
Comcast will subject all its residential broadband customers to a 1.2 terabyte monthly data cap. The threshold that Comcast will start enforcing does, indeed, allow for a lot of online life before getting socked by surcharges of $10 for each extra 50 GB, up to $100 a month.
Remote work can’t change everything until we fix this $80 billion problem
Providing reliable, high-speed internet to remote parts of the U.S. has been a challenge for years. And the COVID-19 pandemic has created a renewed sense of urgency to solve it. Finally solving America’s digital divide will depend on either a technological innovation or governmental intervention.