Google4GSO aggregates blog posts and news about the effort to bring Google's high speed fiber project to Greensboro. Thanks to Roch Smith Jr. for setting it up.
Good to see three Council members (Thompson, Vaughan, Perkins) at tonight's public meeting. Lots of good ideas from the floor about what Google could mean to GSO, with references to education, medicine, business, and creativity. Some highly tech-literate folks among the speakers.
Somebody said we won't just be doing things faster online, we'll be doing different things -- stuff we can't yet imagine. I hope we can reach out to people in the fields mentioned above and ask them to take a shot at imagining some of the possibilities, and then express them to Google in a way that makes us stand out.
Also, if the future is mobile devices, what does this project mean?
Also good to sketch some ways this could reach across the digital divide to parts of the community that tend to get left out of tech dreams. Maybe local foundations could tell Google they'd help meet funding needs?
Also, we should talk about what's in it for Google, not just what's in it for us.
Teevee coverage: Bonus for messing up Brod's name twice.
The project needs a core site, with a message... Everything is very fragmented at this point and needs to be brought together, preferably in my opinion, by the City.
Posted by: Ryan Shell | Feb 24, 2010 at 10:15 PM
Ryan,
I continue to make that request. The city is open to a hub site. This stuff just takes time. We will get there. Thanks for coming out tonight.
Posted by: Jay Ovittore | Feb 24, 2010 at 10:30 PM
The future may be mobile devices, but isn't real high speed transfer still dependent on hard pipes?
Posted by: Thomas | Feb 25, 2010 at 09:37 AM