Research yes, restrictions no [telecommunication industry]

The author hopes that in our zeal to reduce government intrusion in our lives, we don't also eliminate those roles which only the government can fill. He examines the impact of public policy can on the communications industry and discusses the governments' dual roles in the evolution of telecommunication products and services. He also considers how government helped advanced technologies to come about, by funding fundamental research, and contrasts that with how government slowed those technologies' introduction, through various laws and regulations that didn't keep up with the times.