NPR has the fascinating story Episode 489: The Invisible Plumbing Of Our Economy.

We just need Amazon’s bank to send money electronically to a checking account at Chase bank. It’s just information traveling over wires. How long could it take: A minute? An hour?

It took five days.

On today’s show: Why the invisible pipes that move money around America are so slow. (And why the ones in England are so much faster.)

Naked Capitalism has the article The Web Began Dying in 2014 – Here’s How.

Because of this market demand, ISPs will likely provide cheap plans with access to GOOG-FB-AMZN, while offering more expensive plans with full internet access. It is already a reality in Portugal.

In the days of AOL dominance, I stayed away from AOL because I didn’t want their interference with my access to the rest of the internet. In the future, I may have to pay dearly to get the kind of access that I have now.