Free Wi-Fi Becoming Urban Utility?

One minute Google is offering to provide free wireless Internet access (wi-fi) to the City of San Francisco, and then, faster than I can reboot my iBook, Philly announces that it's building "the biggest municipal wireless Internet system in the nation." Yeah man! That's what I'm talkin' 'bout!

Why not treat Internet access the same way that you treat water or electricity, or maybe more accurately highway maintenance? Let the government pay for it and provide it as a public service. Now, that's another trend worth getting behind. Right on.

Read all about it in the Washington Post