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Nick Orsini

Technology Making It Worse - 0 views

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job elimination technological improvements technology unemployment automation

shared by Nick Orsini on 05 May 10 - Cached
  • Nick Orsini on 05 May 10
     
    Here is a very interesting article discusing the future of technology and it's impact on jobs. Some of the opinions need to be taken with a grain of salt.
Jeffrey Kendall

U.S. aid to spread broadband access criticized | The Columbus Dispatch - 0 views

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shared by Jeffrey Kendall on 13 Apr 10 - Cached
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      Jeffrey Kendall on 13 Apr 10
       
      Companies always complain about competition when it's too late and they've already missed the band wagon. These other companies have had chances even if it was small and incremental to make improvements to their broadband offerings and they chose not too. They also had an opportunity to bid for this stimulus money and unfortunately they did not receive it. If they had they would not be complaning right now.
    • Jeffrey Kendall
      Jeffrey Kendall on 13 Apr 10
       
      this is similar to Googles plan to introduce gigabit service to smaller cities on a limited scale to see if the results are profitable. I will be interesting to see if these underdeveloped areas really do take advantage of this service or if it will be lost on them.
  • These local phone and cable companies fear that they will have to compete with governmentsubsidized broadband systems, paid for largely with stimulus dollars. If the taxpayer-funded networks siphon off customers by offering lower prices, private companies might be less likely to upgrade their lines, endangering jobs and undermining the stimulus plan's goals, they warn.
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  • Many existing systems, they note, lack the capacity to meet mush rooming demand for bandwidth. The new, stimulus-funded networks will provide far more-robust connections - many of them offering speeds of up to 100 megabits or even 10 gigabits per second to schools, libraries and other "anchor institutions." That's 20 to 2,000 times faster than the DSL and cable wires linking most U.S. homes.
  • Jeffrey Kendall on 13 Apr 10
     
    Government stimulus attempt to bring broadband access to rural areas that have limited or no high speed internet access.
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