Prompt 10/20 Gedion

As I was reading this speech, I was thinking to myself, we are well past this vision Al Gore had and was talking about. In my opinion I think he did a great job of painting the future. Former vice president Al Gore mentioned that their plan was based on five principals saying,
“Our plan is based on five principles: First, encourage private
investment; Second, promote competition; Third, create a flexible
regulatory framework that can keep pace with rapid technological and
market changes; Fourth, provide open access to the network for all
information providers; and Fifth, ensure universal service.”
An example of this would be, currently we have private companies like Google and YouTube and an example of some of their competitors are yahoo and Microsoft and we have an agency like the FCC monitoring things.
It was a very realistic and achievable vision at the time because currently we have managed to accomplish almost everything he talked about in his speech and we have advance even more because now we have things like cell phones with videos, global positioning systems, email, internet connections, text messaging, chatting and cameras on them helping us share information instantly. Not only have we created some crazy information exchanging gadgets like the super cell phones, but we now have social networking websites like Facebook and MySpace. I think the existence of the social networking websites will assist us tremendously in sharing information and staying connected to a larger network of friends compared to a situation where we did not have social networking websites.