Randal O’Toole of the CATO Institute has a terrific article about the Biden Administration’s effort to “make the United States the "global leader" in high-speed rail. That’s like wanting to be the world leader in electric typewriters, rotary telephones, or steam locomotives, all technologies that were once revolutionary but are functionally obsolete today. You can read this terrific …
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“NEW YORKERS WITH TECH SKILLS WERE APPALLED WHEN THEY TRIED TO MAKE VACCINE APPOINTMENTS FOR OLDER RELATIVES. THEY KNEW THERE WAS A BETTER WAY.” There is a better way than the vaccine “Lord of the Flies” rollout that states like Minnesota are counting on to get senior citizens inoculated against COVID-19. Huge Ma, “a 31-year-old software engineer for Airbnb, was stunned when he tried to …
Late last year, Ohio officials announced that they were launching a pilot program to bring broadband Internet service to unserved regions of the state using StarLink “low-orbit satellite technology developed by SpaceX.” If successful, this state-of-the-art technology will provide download speeds “in excess of the government’s definition of high-speed Internet” service. Satellite broadband …
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