I'm sitting here looking at several fairly substantial proposals for programs taking rural last mile broadband into account and was thinking that taking the lastmile to the house in rural america may not have the effects that are projected. any opinions, theories, thoughts? I'm thinking that there is corresponding detraditionalizations that may not have lasting positive effects on these communities, though immediate economic effects may occur. I'm thinking this will promote an overall migration and population transition toward more urbanization, etc. which of course is not supportive to small rural communities, which may in the end result in a new gentrification of those communities by displaces upper class urbanites looking to operate off of the broadband, thus possibly creating the same situation as occured with industrialization with the automobile in the south. again, thoughts, theories, opinions? I mean what we have is a certain number of imaginations of the future, sometimes even supported by research and i could really use some more citations on this, that seem to assume a certain set of goods in development and goods in the expansion of technologies for the populace... so in short, let me know. jeremy hunsinger jhuns@vt.edu on the ibook www.cddc.vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy www.dromocracy.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments