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  More, good common sense Peter.
  
  Just as we can be sure that thousands of potential philosophers, scientists, economists and artists of all sorts have been slaughtered in childhood throughout the history of warfare, so too we can be sure that unless web-access tends to the universal yet more such potential will be lost to the human race.
  
  There was a few minutes ago on Watchdog an item on the cost levied by hotels for the supply of wi-fi access with most charging and a few which are free. It is "short sighted", said one hotelier, to restrict such access, but what does any successful business person know of these things?
  
  It is normal for the staid thinking of the British ruling 'classes' and their admirers to poo-poo progress that does not first provide them with their accustomed 'bunce'. It took us quite some time to provide telephone connection in new-build houses. How sensible does such antediluvian thinking sound today? Oops! Of course, it sounds just fine.

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