No love for Comcast here, but imagine that every home with a broadband connection could "share" a WiFi connection (firewall protected from your home network). This could be done perhaps via software or even as a small piece of hardware (think Chromecast) that was given out for free.
Interesting article overall. I think the author is specifically focused on journalism as I don't think that 95% of media helps anyone make better life decisions;-)
I think this got flagged earlier but it's so potentially disruptive I wanted to tag it again. This kind of everyday "micro-financing" could make things like non contract mobile phones way more accessible to many more people.