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scale, such as static, investment, or innovative, helps to focus on certain perspectives. The standard economic model of any market is focused on static issues. A static model of the Internet shows monopolies by the ISPs. Time Warner Cable, AT&T, Comcast, and their allies own over 75% of the Internet market (Cortade). Monopolies are caused by a lack of competition, which could be resolved by net neutrality. Currently, a small company run out of a basement gets the same treatment from broadband…

One of the cities I believe millennials love the most is Austin, Tx. That might sound weird considering the stereotypical millennial and the stereotypes surrounding Texas. Millennials are more liberal, artsy, young, hipster, nonreligious, and open to change, whereas Texas is stereotyped as old, southern, conservative, dogmatic, traditionalist, and pious protestant christian. So, why would a millennial think anything remotely related to Texas, let alone a Texas city, would be cool? Well, Austin,…

considered by the Senate, but it ultimately failed. Later, in 2008 the FCC set a precedent that ISPs should not prevent their customers from accessing online services by ordering Comcast to stop throttling Bittorrent traffic on their network. Following these events, the U.S. Court of appeals overturned the FCC’s order against Comcast claiming the FCC had no regulatory power over ISP networks. In response, in 2010 the FCC issues the Open Internet Order which banned ISPs from preventing access to…

Net neutrality is the principle that all internet traffic should be treated equally [1]. This is an especially appealing idea if you are in the middle of watching the latest episode of your favorite show on Netflix. The neutral state of the internet is what has allowed data heavy streaming services like Netflix to flourish. However, treating all data usage exactly the same cuts into ISP’s profits, since they would have to charge everybody the same, and bandwidth is finite. This would lead to…

Internet as they want. With that data the ISPs are free to sell it to whomever may pay them the most for it, whether it be the NSA or other third parties. This benefits no one but the pockets of the greedy companies who want to carry this out such as Comcast or Verizon. This is an issue that any American should not have to deal with under the writing of the…

Of which the first internet message was sent, “Lo”. In direct result, the era of the Internet was kickstarted into existence. It would be twenty years, in 1989, until the first service providers were erected into existence. Major companies such as Comcast wouldn’t start to provide high speed internet until the late 2000’s. However, despite all of are major accomplishments in the past forty years, we’re facing a major problem with our privacy. As a result of almost 90% of Americans using the…

and reduce competition from other ISP’s. The end of net neutrality can completely change the internet of things. Many service providers have their own streaming/cable services and technologies. Comcast for example is working on their own smart home platform (Finley). With the undoing of title II, Comcast could prevent or slow down access from competitors’ smart home appliances. “If your internet provider can decide which personal assistant or smart home gadgets you can or can't use, the…

What does it mean to fake it till you become it, and is it good advice? You’ll never get a second chance to make a first impression” Therefore, ”Fake it till you make it” makes perfect sense. The saying “Fake it till you make it” has been used for over a hundred years, its originator William James believed that “physiology and activity influence our mood”. Productive flourishing (2014) Amy Cuddy agrees in influencing our mood by using “power posing” as a way to achieve “faking it till you become…

I think one concept that has intrigued me is how some businesses compete in an oligopoly market. Netflix for example, entered the video on demand market in 2007 allowing the subscribers to streamline content through a device like a video game consul (Rayburn, 2009). Because the market for streaming content for VOD is emerging due to the continued changing of technology it places Netflix in the oligopoly market among HBO, Amazon, and Hulu. That is Netflix, HBO, Amazon, and Hulu are all vying for…

Net neutrality is an issue that was brought up in the news three months ago when the government revoked it. Net neutrality is a very complicated thing and not many people actually know what it means. Net neutrality is where the government forces internet providers to give all websites the same speeds. That allows startup tech companies to use the same speeds as Facebook and Google. According to the ACLU, without net neutrality there will be two tiers of the internet. The companies that can…