Gaps should be limited to official border crossings and small, heavily monitored thruways that allow the safe passage of migratory animals.

FORBES: A daunting policy problem demands more modest solutions.

Because it was too expensive to deploy all the computers needed to serve small local markets, fiber-optic backbones now serve mainly as cross-country thruways, but the shift to optics could let fiber networks extend farther into neighborhoods than ever before.

FORBES: Hooked on photonics