"The great exception is information technology, whose rapid advance is no fluke: "So far computers and the Internet have been the one sector immune from excessive regulation."
-so true, and let's hope we can keep it that way.
-so true, and let's hope we can keep it that way.
Yep, its all over transportation. And you can see from the daily block long backup in front of Apple's global headquarters of cars waiting to get on the clogged highway 280 that innovative entrepreneurs aren't allowed to fix it.
For a real-world example see South Korea, where until just a few months ago government regulations mandated the use of IE for all commerce: http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/07/01/korea.no.longe...
And the reason was so you could have ActiveX verifying your identity. Yeah, bet ya Microsoft worked real hard getting the latest and greatest browser out for that market.