Coasting through America
So I'm driving across America right now from Oregon to Virginia and getting a little thoughtful about tech. Like most technologists, I live for the big coastal cities...New York, DC, San Francisco. I tend to ignore the central part of the country and certainly rural America in my "where-are-computers-heading" kind of thinking.
So, here's some off-the-cuff observations based on virtually no data points:
Americans everywhere have and use the Internet
IF they don't have Broadband, they can easily get it
They use DVDs and HD TVs
The Internet is part of their daily life. I hear people everywhere talking about using Mapquest or EBay or Amazon. The Internet is not about Silicon Valley or Wall Street or even Congress. It's like Wal-Mart.
The funny part is that the coastal urbanites make all the big decisions. We pick what cars like and what's on TV and how much computers cost.
I wonder how long that will go on, given the subversive nature of universal Internet communications?
Posted on June 01, 2006
