Here's a quote for your frontal lobe to swallow:

"There's something fundamentally undemocratic about charging money for communications..."

Those words come from page 129 of Cory Doctorow's novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town.  Doctorow is a big advocate of universal accessibility to communications technology and free speech through computers, phones, and other emerging tools for talking.  Libraries are too.

Two major things are happening to information and ...