The mayor of San Francisco has a plan to give residents free Wi-Fi internet service. Google and Earthlink are building the system. The system “would force players such as Comcast and SBC to swiftly mark down their prices to the $20 range. A pricing and features war would ensue. The resulting universal broadband would in turn create opportunities for new Internet business models, perhaps spawning a 1990s-like job boom. However, for every good new thing in San Francisco, there is an army of protesters angry that it’s not the perfect thing.”