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But they have supplemented the telephone system to meet a personal and local need. A few years ago, no one outside the cab of a Kenworth knew CB existed; now, the FCC is swamped with 500,000 CB license applications a month. It can’t supervise that mass; conventional radio broadcasters are having nightmares over it (radio listeners are switching from AM-FMtoCBatan “alarming” rate); communities everywhere are creating their own CB networks.

Video is where CB was. It can become a local force, or it can be left to the regulation and centralization that have captured and neutralized most other media. There will probably always be bureaucrats and broadcasters announcing when to sow and when to reap, how to avoid hazards, how to be informed; but, thanks to community video, they may someday find there’s no one listening.

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But they have supplemented the telephone system to meet a personal and local need. A few years ago, no one outside the cab of a Kenworth knew CB existed; now, the FCC is swamped with 500,000 CB license applications a month. It can’t supervise that mass; conventional radio broadcasters are having nightmares over it (radio listeners are switching from AM-FMtoCBatan “alarming” rate); communities everywhere are creating their own CB networks.

Video is where CB was. It can become a local force, or it can be left to the regulation and centralization that have captured and neutralized most other media. There will probably always be bureaucrats and broadcasters announcing when to sow and when to reap, how to avoid hazards, how to be informed; but, thanks to community video, they may someday find there’s no one listening.