I've been asked to write 5-10 pages answering the question "what's broadband good for?"  Although I'm tempted to say "and why do we have light?" I realize that it's meant as a serious question.  So I'll try to frame the answer in a transformative thought-provoking way.  I was going to post a substantial set of paragraphs on this, but I've just had a long session dedicated to uploading new pages to my site (uploading was just not working for me tonight). 

We used to think that the "content" "on" the internet was as diverse as human thought.  (That's a reference to the CDA case, now ten years old.)  Now we know that it's not "content on" - it's "communication using."  In fact, pre-packaged content is lessening in importance.  We're still at the very beginning of all this. The screens we have could still be used in more interesting and complex ways, and higher-speed connections will make that complexity more approachable for everyone.

And we'd like to be able to upload.  More tomorrow.