This past year in technology has been quite the roller coaster. Of course, you could say the same for most years in the past few decades, but this year went above and beyond in many ways, most of them having little to do with technology itself, and more with its impact on modern civilization and politics. A number of watershed events this year will ripple far into the future.
It’s a challenge to pinpoint the most significant technology-related event of 2015, but in the United States, it may be the FCC vote upholding strict Net neutrality regulations. The actions and words of FCC chairman Tom Wheeler came as a surprise to many who had written him off as a cable industry puppet, but in reality, he was up to the challenge. I can’t say that my faith in him was absolute, but I did call it a year before.
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