Internet Access: Flat Fee Vs. Pay-Per-Use
Beginning of paper
Most Internet users are either not charged to access information, or pay
a low-cost flat fee. The Information SuperHighway, on the other hand, will
likely be based upon a pay-per-use model. On a gross level, one might say that
the payment model for the Internet is closer to that of broadcast (or p ....
Middle of paper
.... discourage browsing. Imagine how a person's reading
habits would change if they had to pay for each article they looked at in a
magazine or newspaper.
Yet many of the most interesting things we learn about or find come from
following unknown routes, bumping into things we weren't looking for. (Indeed,
Thomas Kuhn makes the claim that, even in the hard sciences, real breakthroughs
and interesting discoveries only come from following these unconventional routes
[Kuhn, Thomas, The Structure of ....
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