roundtable: Re: FINS VOL. 2, ISSUE NO. 7

roundtable: Re: FINS VOL. 2, ISSUE NO. 7

Re: FINS VOL. 2, ISSUE NO. 7

Ed Roche (eroche@rnd.stern.nyu.edu)
Sat, 26 Mar 94 19:03:21 EST 

Date: Sat, 26 Mar 94 19:03:21 EST
From: Ed Roche <eroche@rnd.stern.nyu.edu>
To: roundtable@cni.org
Subject: Re: FINS VOL. 2, ISSUE NO. 7
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 25 Mar 1994 19:46:47 -0500
Message-Id: <CMM.0.90.2.764726601.eroche@rnd.stern.nyu.edu>

 
I've been reading the roundtable discussions for several weeks now 
and have noticed the bitter turn recently in the messages. A few 
observations: 1) the video dial tone debate is mixed up with the NII 
debate, 2) much of the debate centers around the old public versus 
private enterprise postions which can be applied to anything (highways, 
port facilties, airports, cable TV systems). In that connection, we all 
know that private enterprise can not supply equal access to all citizens, 
even if there is competition, because it can not do it in other more 
important sections (food supply, access to health services, access to 
TV, etc.). On the other hand, everyone should have reservations about 
goverment-delivered services because of the chronic inefficiency which 
is evidently impossible to fix. So its a tough and difficult choice. 
3) some of the debate has turned towards government-mandated set-asides 
and "public acces" for various "public interest" (e.g. lobby) groups. 
My only strong position on this is that regardless of the outcome, all 
public and private schools in the country, including vocational schools, 
and all hospitals and health systems, and all public and private 
libraries should be hooked up at the public expense or at least 
subsidized (at different levels) to ensure the next generation of 
kids have net-competency.

Edward M. Roche
New York
<eroche@rnd.stern.nyu.edu>

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