This is where we are glad Nick is looking into how to take interesting Friam threads and putting them in a blog of some sort.
Nick: any progress? Ideas on how to proceed? On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 9:40 AM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > Santa Fe, and New Mexico in general, is interesting in that regard. > > SF is not a large city, and is the state capitol. (Not unusual for the > capitol cities to be small in the US). Yet it has the Santa Fe Institute > and quite an active techie crowd (our sister list, wedtech, for example). > > NM has a spaceport: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceport_America, > which is as you mention, an example of a small state having an important > facility. > > And there is LANL, the lab that (shudder) built the bomb. And Sandia Labs. > And RedFish and Friam :) > > But then there is a lot of the countryside that is left out of this. I > really like the idea of making the Country(side) important. In NM there > issues with the tribal lands which are poorly served, but it's getting > better. > > Nice meme, let's make it go viral! > > -- Owen > > On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 2:05 AM, Jochen Fromm <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Eric Schmidt posted an interesting article about the digital divide in >> both urban and rural America on Google+ and Twitter recently (I don't use >> Facebook). >> https://goo.gl/GYrBGg >> >> Do the digital divide and the urban-rural divide have something in >> common? Here in Germany they seem to have a lot in common, all the people >> want to live in the big cities like Munich, Cologne, Hamburg or Berlin, >> where the digital startups and agencies are, and the surrounding country >> often feels as if it were empty, there are no jobs here, and you will have >> difficulties to get a Taxi because there is simply none. >> >> The manufacturing jobs went to China long ago, and the European rust belt >> from Gelsenkirchen to Gliwice suffered a similar fate as the American one. >> In the county there is lots of affordable space but no jobs, while in the >> urban regions there are plenty of jobs but no affordable space to live. >> >> How can we make the COUNTRY great again? It would make much more sense if >> people would move out of the cities back into rural areas, in the moden >> digital age people can work remotely from everywhere as long as there is a >> good Internet connection. The cities in turn would gain more space and >> could get greener. >> >> Let us say Google or Apple would move their headquarters to St. Louis, >> Kansas City or Albuquerque. In the modern digital world it doesn't matter >> where are you are located as long as you have a good Internet connection. >> Suddenly San Francisco would have a lot more affordable space to live, and >> St. Louis or Albuquerque would thrive. >> >> If the big IT corporations can not relocate their headquarters, maybe >> government agencies can. CIA and NSA are both located near Washington, D.C. >> If their headquarters would move to Kansas City or Albuquerque than these >> town would prosper and more affordable space to live would become instantly >> available in the capital. >> >> In Germany the CIA counterpart BND moves just now into the opposite >> direction, from the country to the capital. I think that's wrong. One thing >> that the NASA space program did well was to consider the whole country and >> every state, the Kennedy Space Center is in Florida, the control center is >> in Houston, Texas, the JPL in California, etc. >> >> Regards, >> Jochen >> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >> > >
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