Workers at FEMA worry that demanding disaster survivors access services using email could shut out people without internet connectivity from receiving government aid.
The post office should be modernized into a national ISP. It’s not a huge conceptual leap to go from mail delivery to more broadly enabling communication in all forms.
Great idea. Along with that we should sink some money into the digital infrastructure to make sure as much of the country is connected at the best possible level. Wait…we did that in, what, the 90s? Gave a lot of money to the companies of the time and…shit, where’d that money go?
The post office should be modernized into a national ISP. It’s not a huge conceptual leap to go from mail delivery to more broadly enabling communication in all forms.
And postal banking too!
Great idea. Along with that we should sink some money into the digital infrastructure to make sure as much of the country is connected at the best possible level. Wait…we did that in, what, the 90s? Gave a lot of money to the companies of the time and…shit, where’d that money go?
Totally agree we shouldn’t outsource to private companies.