Importance is a subjective concept. One opinion is that a very important Internet application will inevitably be 1-1. Who did the FCC just hire as their new C

Importance is a subjective concept. One opinion is that a very important Internet application will inevitably be 1-1. Who did the FCC just hire as their new CTO? What is happening to POTS? 1-to-many systems, hacked to give an illusion of 1-1 conversations, e.g. smtp middlemen, social networking's http servers or twitter-like broadcast sms, are what we settle for today, but, imo, this is a limitation not a desired goal.