High speed for everyone means more than faster web surfing in rural areas. It means that the Internet becomes the dominate national means of communication, especially for real time conversations.

It means that everyone, whether they can read or type or not, can join in rich media enhanced conversation spaces, replete with any needed resources.

It means new degrees of freedom of speech are available to everyone, For example, that anyone using a cell phone can converse easily with an audience while camming a local event and sharing it with the world.

Ubiquitous broadband that is affordable to all means that we can be connected as a nation and as a society in ways that we have not imagined.

What other major changes do your think broadband internet for everyone would bring about?