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What's it like living with Tourette's robots?

A great place to start on that front would actually be roadways, with a "dig once" policy that would require installation of fiber optic cable when digging up roads and the like, since excavation accounts for 90% of the cost of installing fiber: https://broadbandnow.com/report/dig-once-digital-divide/

(The article concludes that attempts to enact such policies have enjoyed bipartisan support but, spoiler alert, they get shut down by both telco lobbyists and short-sighted governmental budgeting.)