And as you sunset FM radio, you cut huge swaths of humanity out of yet another communications channel. FM radios are cheap, well-established technology, perfec

And as you sunset FM radio, you cut huge swaths of humanity out of yet another communications channel. FM radios are cheap, well-established technology, perfectly suited to mass communications (as in emergency alerts, etc). It survives suboptimal conditions (fuzzy broadcasts are still intelligible, receivers can be operated on hand-crank power, replacing equipment can be done at a dollar-store, etc). The amazing new technology that replaces it is without exception more complex, less reliable, and requires more infrastructure, and the associated costs invariable lock some segment of society out of participation. On the web side of this analogy, we're so fortunate to have people like Neocities trying to rebuild those bridges to the beginners, the resource-deprived, and the other edges of society, but with every crank of this ratchet we (literally!) excommunicate another set of our species, and that's depressing as hell.