America Connected: “America’s Digital Future”

STRATEGY, BUSINESS MODELS AND INNOVATION FOR TELECOM OPERATORS,

GOVERNMENT BODIES, AND THEIR PARTNERS

Technology, regulation, and the investment environment for next generation broadband.

 

The 3rd annual Connected America event brings together communications service providers at national, state, and local level alongside the public sector, enterprise verticals and suppliers to discuss the how and why of improving broadband coverage in America.

 

Connected America is the premier event uniting thousands of key stakeholders driving next-generation connectivity across the United States.

 

With a diverse lineup of speakers and attendees from across the digital economy, Connected America offers unparalleled networking opportunities, enabling meaningful connections with leaders shaping the future of connectivity. The program delves into the evolving landscape of technology, regulation, and investment while showcasing the transformative social and economic benefits of enhanced connectivity for individuals, communities, businesses, and industries across the nation.

One might expect a great deal of speculation at the above event about what the evolving landscape in Digital Tech Connectivity will look like during this current chaotic period in Washington DC.

For example government bodies’ “connections” with all the other “stakeholders” are apparently up for drastic and unpredictable changes. Or so it would seem 2/10/2025.

Presumably some will find the changes as opportunities, and not disasters, and that can be very valuable. But there will be losers too, and we hope it is not the usual suspects of those currently on the outside looking in for Digital connectivity. Or the middle class who might find their costs to connect rising dramatically if Telecom regulation goes away.

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Clearly one of the biggest digital connectivity issues ongoing is what frameworks will the large AI models be working with. And which players will have the upper hand in creating and limiting those frameworks? And then, if the dust settles at some point, what will the playing field look like for online education and online healthcare?

It appears the circumstances supporting learning and healthcare have never been more unpredictable than today. Some of this as noted contains a ton of useful opportunities, and some seems to be random destruction without clear vision for what comes next.  The net results are still TBD but there’s huge risks involved.

It should also be noted, that even without the huge revamping of the federal government underway, advances in AI are going to cause immense change and to a notable degree chaos will replace the status quo regardless.

What do huge govenment institutions look like once AI can do most of the work? Nobody knows, but the problem is analogous to what do corporations look like once AI can “run most of the processes autonomously”?

It might not be too wild to speculate that huge reductions in the human workforce will be coming regardless of if it’s government or private sector being reorganized to rely on AI.

And one might say this is also random destruction without a clear vision of what comes next. From an economic standpoint, the efficiency of AI vs that of human workers will be extremely obvious. What will not be obvious are the costs of destabilizing civilization as we know it, where people for the most part currently have employment and defined roles in society.

Such roles provide somewhat predictable income as well as the status of being a functional part of the way it all works. It can’t be overlooked that when masses of people lose “status” they no longer accept the rules and constraints that keep things more or less stable. At least that’s the story to date in the history of man.

Maybe the new slogan for PSA should be “Packing Light in the AI Age”…