Planet Broadband

Foreword

Planet Broadband covers the nascent history and status of the broadband movement. In doing so, it wrestles with the definition of broadband, discusses the various forms it’s taking around the world, and suggests the possible futures it might have. I have known and worked with Rouzbeh Yassini and his contributors for over a decade, and, in a sense, we (and many others) have tried to discover what broadband is together. This book is a collection of their learnings, observations, and guesses.

Just over a decade ago, I saw an alpha-version of Mosaic—the first web browser. It struck me that the average cable customer could handle “point and click.” But my focus was on the television set. I contacted Delphi in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and met ...