CDN's have been around since the late 1990's
google and other edge providers have been doing direct connections to ISP's for a long time as well

today's net neutrality arguments seem to be done by a bunch of blogger retarts who think Netflix should get everything for free because they like netflix and hate cable TV. and they have no idea how the internet really works and think everything is streamed or sent thousands of miles via tier 1 backbone networks which isn't true at all. everyone has been staging their content as close to the users as possible for many years now and spending a lot of money to do it

when everyone knows how to code expect it to be the factory work of this century. find some pictures of early 20th century offices where everyone sits at a desk in a huge room with no dividers. it's already here again

the value is going to be figuring out algorithms to make sense of the huge amounts of data being collected. the code to implement the algorithm will be your average low wage job

a lot of people go to school to another state
used to be you went to your state school. now kids want to be independent and fly off to some school a thousand miles away. a state school in another state and pay out of state tuition and room and board

a lot of people who went to college in the 70's and 80's also worked full time or part time and lived in crappy apartments. now the kids aren't working and borrowing their living expenses for four years

everything is faster than java

same with cars

30 years ago you had an AM radio, you needed a V8 for 190hp and dozens of features we take for granted today may have been thought of to be only on ultra luxury cars. not like we had navigation, blue tooth and lots of other gizmos in cars. a lot of the safety features and the new features people want suck up gas as well

i remember in the 90's everyone swore it was impossible to go under 90nm how 1GHz was the maximum speed you could get

you assume it never happened
for all you know there is a mini money printer at langley

not in biblical times, back then it was like 900 years

tell that to the bike nuts in NYC
they want the city to build bike paths and the drivers to pay for it

and why not?
you must be a republican where you want government to build stuff and no taxes to pay for it

long career of inserting punch cards into computers

you don't
you trade your phone in to a legit business and they have a deal with apple and everyone else to reformat the phone and disable any kill switches

try being single and going out to drink all the time and having it stolen while drunk because you leave it on a bar or just lose it or going home alone at 2am on a deserted subway train

if they used MS Exchange then you can have email delivered to the pst file which means it will be deleted from the server after a few weeks and probably won't be in any backup. or you can configure deleted mail to be deleted automatically and not sit in the hidden location for a month.

when the 4K content starts coming out
because you know, they will stop selling these soon and you will never be able to buy one to view all the 4K content coming out soon
or they will drop in price to the point where kids can afford them on their allowance, but you have to buy it NOW and Before this happens just to be the first one to watch 4K content