[FRIAM] How we can make the COUNTRY great again

[Owen Densmore]

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 <owen at backspaces.net> 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 <jofr at cas-group.net> 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
>>
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