3G has come to the top of Mount Everest, just one more symbol of our global connectedness.

"So the clear and present danger isn’t that the G.O.P. will be able to achieve its long-run goals. It is, rather, that Republicans will gain just enough power to make the country ungovernable, unable to address its fiscal problems or anything else in a serious way. As I said, banana republic, here we come."

Thomas L. Friedman makes a compelling case for adding more room and encouragement for experimentation in the American economy.