From an article by Harry Malone in the New Hampshire Bar News:

A generation ago, here’s how you might have acquired and worked with the information you needed to navigate through your day:
 
Your clock radio would wake you to the sound of news, weather, and traffic reports. As you enter the kitchen, you might also turn on the TV to listen to a morning news show, and then grab the morning paper off the front stoop.
 
On your way out the door, you would drop some bill payments in your mailbox and then drive (with the radio on) to your office, with its various office machines and phone/data lines.
 
Arriving back home at the end of the day, you would check the contents of your mailbox, most of which would be advertising or bills. Occasionally, there would be a card or letter from a relative or friend.
 
At some point in the evening, the TV would be back on, or you might listen to recorded music on the home stereo, or read a book that you borrowed from the library or purchased at the bookstore. Some evenings you might watch a broadcast television show or movie, or pop in a tape from the video store, or even go out to the movies.
 
And, of course, all through the day you would have had numerous telephone conversations with friends, family, and business associates.
 
Each one of these forms of “information transfer” would have occurred using a separate device, a separate method, and a separate transmission or transportation technology. Today, however, these activities can be conducted with a single device – smartphone, tablet, laptop – over a single broadband connection, and all concurrently.

Malone then goes on to discuss two of the most topical issues in telecommunications law—net neutrality and spectrum allocation.