The other day, while lying in my hotel room, pondering the life of a traveling consultant, I saw a television ad for The Future… Faster! It’s an advocacy group, or something. Read this:

The Future…Faster is fighting for consumer-controlled — not government-managed — competition in today’s communications marketplace. Isn’t it time for the laws to catch up with our lives?

I agree that it’s time for the laws to catch up with our lives. It’s time for the government to set consistent policies that encourage rapid growth and adoption of high-speed content-neutral communications networks.

But that whole bit about “consumer-controlled” competition on Future Faster makes me think this might just be a slick campaign from telecoms who want to quash municipal and grassroots broadband initiatives. Giving consumers control over how they connect to the global information network is a very different proposition than allowing telecom oligopolies to rust and fall apart (and drag our public infrastructure down with them).

Has anybody seen anything about these guys? I can’t find any real background searching Google or hunting Technorati.