The key to our future

This MinnPost article shows how broadband usage by the American population continues to grow even as the economy shrinks. My back-of-the-envelope math, however, shows that the demographics of the Iron Range still put us in risk of falling behind the rest of the country (and certainly the industrialized world) in both usage and understanding of the internet. The dissemination and usage of high-speed internet as an economic tool for the Iron Range is probably the one great opportunity of our generation to change the story that has already been written for us.

Old.

Dying.

Ignorant.

Hell, no. I reject that and you should too. We have the resources. We have the intelligence. Fight for the future.

Comments

  1. Toni Wilcox says

    FYI-Minnesota ranks 35th in the annual Education Week “Technology Counts” ranking. On the bright side that’s up from 48, on the other hand near neighbors like North Dakota and South Dakota have been in the top ten for a while.

  2. Sigh, I’ve been checking with Qwest regarding DSL and it IS cheap, but not available yet. I don’t get it because they keep advertising and advertising. I am less than 2 miles from their building.

  3. Toni Wilcox says

    PS-my father-in-law lives in a far more populous part of California. His neighbors have had DSL for 10 years but he still waits, just a few feet away from some line on a map.

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