Published Date:
17 June 2009
WHEN politicians try to appear knowledgeable about popular culture they usually make fools of themselves. When they try to pick industrial winners, they usually waste taxpayer's money. These processes are at work in the government's much-hyped report on the future of "Digital Britain".
According to Gordon Brown, the report will make Britain "the digital capital of the world". It promises to guarantee every home in the UK access to broadband connections delivering two million megabytes of data per second (2Mbps). But Japanese intern...
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Last Updated:
16 June 2009 9:20 PM
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Source:
The Scotsman
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Location:
Edinburgh
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