describes how vastly more efficient the bottom-up Internet is compared to the old telco industry’s top-down model Pricing disparities like that between telco s

describes how vastly more efficient the bottom-up Internet is compared to the old telco industry’s top-down model Pricing disparities like that between telco services vs Internet services create pressure like differentials in air pressure on opposite sides of a membrane. The membrane represents forces that prevent efficiencies in that market from being realized and enjoyed by consumers in that market. When that membrane is able to prevent the equalization of a pressure differential that is five orders of magnitude, you know that membrane is extraordinarily strong. Unfortunately, membranes like that exist everywhere you turn in society. They do an enormous amount of damage, and the only reason why we see it so starkly in this case is that the Internet grew faster than membrane-supporting-forces could get their boots on its neck.