Some high speed access is out in the country, but it's expensive.
August 14, 2006
1968: The Start of the Technological Revolution: When did the tech revolution really start?
All Hand Coded: I enjoy coding things myself despite all the extra work it creates.
Am I Old Fashioned? Thoughts on Change: Andrew writes about his thoughts on a changing world.
As A Computer Programmer: One of a series of essays on different carrer options and what they entail.
Bureaucracies Have Political Cultures: Despite the image of apolitical life in bureaucracy, the people who make government work are often very political.
Bureaucracy: It's Problems: The reality of bureaucratic thought in our society.
Canned Reality: A discussion of video games, and television, and their effects on society.
Criticizing Technological Rationality: A careful analyisis of role of technology and bureaucratic rationality on the world around us.
DTV: Time To Get Rid of Your TV?: They won't work next year, so recycle 'em, and look to other sources of news.
Email and Spam: Many of us just get too much useless information but at least we don't have to dispose of it.
Highly Urbanized Computing: How Windows XP is not unlike our big cities.
Hudson Valley Not Tech Valley: Our future is in diversity, not technology.
In a Computerized World: Are We Humans Anymore?: Andrew asks if in a computer dominated world, if being a person means anything anymore.
Malta's Reality: Far from being a great tech center, it shows the freedom of rural life.
Nation of Managers: Management is not a solution to our problems.
Post-Modernity: Five areas of study that allow us to see beyond the limits of science and technology.
Running out of Freedom: It sometimes seems like that I've seen everything locally (eventhough I haven't), and that finding cgreener pastures is getting harder.
Simplicity: For the Web, For the World: Simple webpages present information quickly. A simple world makes sure we get that infomation.
Tech Valley Realities: High Tech in Albany won't just give us jobs, it will also change cultures and increase sprawl.
The Endless Freedom Assault of our Technocratic Society: How somehow our fixes to our problems may actually make things worst.
The Parthenon: Technology and Politics: Reviewing the relationship between technology, politics, and a greater society.
The Story of the Non-Programmer: Sometimes thinking about who you have been, can take the stress off a rough day, and the bad memories that a class may bring back.
Tired of Computers? I Don't Think I'm Alone.: After a long semister of dealing with them, and doing lots of school work, he's just plain tired...
Twitter: A fun way to share what your doing with the world.
Webpages: Keep 'em Simple: We need to have simple webpages that load quickly.
Wireless Internet: Free hotspots make it possible for us to access high speed internet without cost.
There are countless politicians that talk about rural broadband being the way to finally liberate the country and bring good jobs out to the boondocks. While I'm cynical rather about that notion, it sure would be nice to have the level of Internet access that my counterparts in the big cities have. In many cases there is some broadband available out here, but there is relatively high costs involved or inconveniences that make it undesirable.
Around here, the local cable company known as Mid-Hudson Cable-vision provides the option of High Speed Internet through their cable subscription service. The thing is that isn't particularly cheap and requires you also have Cable TV at the same time or pay an even higher rate. If your willing to pay for it you can get it, but it shouldn't be dis proportionally expensive to the fast DSL they can get in Albany.
Broadband provides fast downloads and access to a lot of good services like the Acme Mapper tool that are otherwise too slow over dial up. Yet, it simply is out of reach for most of us in rural areas despite the fact that fewer sites load well. Maybe technology will ultimately bring more options to Rural America or maybe if we want high speed access we are going to have to pony up a few more bucks for it just like we have to spend a few more bucks to fill up our trucks.
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