As this article from the New York Times suggests, libraries are where people go to use resources they do not want to, or cannot pay for. If you have been to your local library recently, and if your local library has PCs and Internet access, you see the same pattern: people who cannot afford broadband at home, or who do not own PCs, use the public libraries.
It would be hard to name any single institution, anywhere more ideally suited to provide high-speed broadband access to people who cannot afford PCs or recurring service charges.
It would be nearly criminal if libraries are not key beneficiaries of "broadband stimulus" funding.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/nyregion/long-island/15libraryli.html?_r=5
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Effective Broadband Stimulus? Give it to Libraries
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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