Universal Access and Its Asymmetries The Untold Story of the Last 200 Years

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Tác giả: Hamid R Ekbia, Harmeet Sawhney

Ngôn ngữ: eng

ISBN-13: 978-0262372985

ISBN-13: 978-0262544559

ISBN: mitpress/11281.001.0001

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Thông tin xuất bản: Cambridge The MIT Press 2022

Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (244 p.)

Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở

ID: 372931

A framework for understanding the totality of costs and benefits of universal access that will foster honest appraisal and guide the development of good policies. Universal access-the idea that certain technologies and services should be extended to all regardless of geography or ability to pay-evokes ideals of democracy and equality that must be reconciled with the realities on the ground. The COVID-19 pandemic raised awareness of the need for access to high-speed internet service in the United States, but this is just the latest in a long history of debates about what should be made available and to whom. Rural mail delivery, electrification, telephone service, public schooling, and library access each raised the same questions as today's debates about health care and broadband. What types of services should be universally available? Who benefits from extending these services? And who bears the cost? Stepping beyond humanitarian arguments to conduct a clear-eyed, diagnostic analysis, this book offers some surprising conclusions. While the conventional approach to universal access looks primarily at the costs to the system and the benefits to individuals, Harmeet Sawhney and Hamid Ekbia provide a holistic perspective that also accounts for costs to individuals and benefits for systems. With a comparative approach across multiple cases, Universal Access and Its Asymmetries is an essential exploration of the history, costs, and benefits of providing universal access to technologies and services. With a fresh perspective, it overturns common assumptions and offers a foundation for making decisions about how to extend service-and how to pay for it.
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