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Quotes by Marvin Ammori

In the early 1990s, Americans used their home phone lines to connect their desktop computers to the Internet via ISPs like AOL, Earthlink, or Netzero. Back then, the ISPs didnt have cost-effective technology to select particular sites for blocking or privileging.

A report released by the Partnership for a New American Economy and the Partnership for New York City predicts that by 2018, there will be 800,000 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) jobs in the United States that require a masters degree or higher - and only around 550,000 American-graduates with this training.

When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, declaring that all men were created equal, he owned slaves. Women couldnt vote. But, throughout history, our abolitionists, suffragettes, and civil rights leaders called on our nation, in reality, to live up to the nations professed ideals in that Declaration.

News seems to travel far more quickly on Twitter and Facebook than through search.

Data can generally travel the speed of light unless networks are congested. When theres congestion, usually the cheapest and best thing is simply to add capacity generally, not to prioritize certain sites over others.

By definition, the Singularity means that machines would be smarter than us, and, in their wisdom, they can innovate new technologies. The innovations would come so quickly, and increasingly quickly, that the innovation would make Moores Law seem as antiquated as Hammurabis Code.

Network neutrality is sometimes called Internet freedom or Internet openness and is a legal principle that would forbid cable and phone companies like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast from blocking some websites or providing special priority to others.

The FCC cant enforce press-statement principles without adopting official rules, and those rules must be based on the legal theory of reclassification.

The Open Internet principles were not legal rules adopted by the FCC they were effectively a press statement posted on the FCC website.