As the cash cow per-minute voice model gives way to VOIP, where will the carriers go for funds to cover the costs of this endless build-out? In the U.S. the net neutrality drumbeat seems to be forcing carriers (ever-fearful of falling into the abyss of the "dumb pipe" role) toward tiered broadband pricing, which runs counter to Frankston's ideal.

The two-sided model, with all of its appeal, seems an elusive goal in the near term, at least in the U.S. The government can't mandate it, and the carriers don't yet embrace it. And so it appears that we will soon be trading one flawed model for another, awaiting the day that the carriers wake up to the additional revenue opportunities staring them in the face.

Not surprising because there is a LOT of unexploited potential currently in proven technologies. And newer technologies generally push against the same dimensions of use, when they have not been broadly integrated into business or general culture.

Business process innovation is the next step in culture catching up with technology – and in my mind the evolution of the impact of the removal information asymmetries and artificial processes constraints as a basis of profit and control.

That this process is happening because individual insight into artificiality quickly becomes commonly available insight is not surprising.

Longer term this has implications for those most process conservative organizations – governments – because each business that adopts business models that flatten info exchange and remove artificial process (including regulation) roadblocks simply accelerates within the general culture the expectation that this should be possible everywhere.

A new world is truly emerging.