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-- MarcRoitman - 19 Dec 2008
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 If the former is true, then it seems your essay poses a dilemma between efficient and democratic means of distribution that is purely hypothetical. Network bandwidth--be it in any private network or the internet--is not inherently scarce. More cable can always be laid, and technology is increasing the amount of information that can be transmitted across existing copper, fiber and wireless frequencies every year. There is no real inelasticity of supply here.

-- AndreiVoinigescu - 20 Dec 2008

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  • Like your first, this essay has nothing to do with the Net, or the society it produces. It's a mere cookbook recapitulation of the undergraduate macroeconomics version of political economy, with an occasional illustration drawn from the technology of the last decade of the last millennium. There's no point of contact between the essay and anything we discussed in the class, or any issue that could be said to flow from anything we tried to learn about. From the point of view on which I grade, measuring effort, commitment and improvement, there's a good argument the work fails. The effort appears perfunctory, almost as though mere copying were involved; the level of commitment to the subject of our investigation is near nil, and there is no improvement visible from one essay to the next. But revision could make an enormous difference.
 
 
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