" Roughly 40 percent of Americans do not have high-speed Internet access at home, according to new Commerce Department figures that underscore the challenges facing policymakers who are trying to bring affordable broadband connections to everyone."
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What bothers me is that the techies of the world think everyone has convenient broadband access and design their websites and other services accordingly. For those of us with slow dial-up connections, we must wait and wait until bloated pages slowly unfold before us.
IMHO, much of the stuff on bloated pages is unnecessary. It seems to be more of the web page designer's efforts to show off his knowledge of the latest bells and whistles rather than actually communicating real content.
It doesn't have to be that way. There _are_ plenty of excellent websites that work fine on dial up, so obviously it can be done if the designers choose to.
Obviously the information technology industry is always pushing for faster and more powerful. In this way PCs get obsolete quicker and people must go out and buy ever-more powerful models. It also means users must subscribe to broadband access, making money for the communications carriers.