Are you faulting the former FCC chairman for calling the Internet America’s most important network when speaking in the context of FCC regulations? Obviously he isn’t making a claim that it is more important than power transmission or our transportation networks because those don’t exist in the domain being discussed.
Dude, it was a general statement, not specific to the authors comments.
But if you think internet is bad wait until you have the case where a working mother can't heat her babies bottle but the rich ceo down the road is charging his Tesla.
I know this is coming because I sat in a talk at YOW last year which went over how great it will be to have smart transmission networks. I imagine the presenter (some ex head from Google's Borg project) was so privileged she can't even imagine someone being unable to compete with the ceo for transmission capacity.
