The road to the future of the Internet, as laid down by Google & Verizon this week
Every month you receive an electric bill. When you get down to it the metric by which you are charged is pretty simple. X units at $Y-per-unit = your bill. Nothing more, nothing less. Use more electricity, you pay more. Use less electricity, you pay less.
Imagine a world in which your electric bill was subdivided dozens of different ways depending on just what you were powering. Suppose there was a special tier set up for your television or computer equipment, that “promised” the power would be so much more percent stable and clean than normal power if only you pay 10% more for it. Imagine a world where you can’t use your electric stove because stoves are placed in a tier that is 50% more than the standard rate, to the point where cooking every day becomes cost-prohibitive. Tiers for your stove, your microwave, your dishwasher, your electric toothbrush, your alarm clock, your plug-in vehicle, and more. Your bill becomes increasingly frustrating, and increasingly expensive.
Google & Verizon would like to do this to your Internet.
