Richard Bennett and Matt Sherman explain why it’s a bad idea. (And here are a few of my old rants on the issue.) Bennett: If we’ve learned anything at all about from the history of Internet-as-utility, it’s that this strained analogy only applies in cases where there is no existing infrastructure, and probably ends best [...]
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