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Three ways to improve the economy of towns and cities (not in any best order). Unlimited bandwidth in both directions (as in you can use as much band width as you can use, even if that mean you are host company and operate out of your garage). Light rail or smaller gage in neighborhoods. And to increse security use a storm drain pipe underground to protect the rail service. The pipe would provide service access to power lines and any amount of fiber optic cable (and allow companies to use automated shipping to send and recieve products, providing greater opportunity to physicaly impared and elderly). By making bandwidth available in both directions a city would attract cutting edge bussiness models using modern communications technoledgy, They would attract finacial products and sales personel. Equipment would need to be sold and serviced attracting an educated work force. Civil coad could provide a cooperative with a satalite uplink to internet. Rates would be distributed according to use. Reaserch companies that use modern tech. methods would be attracted as well groups whos primary reasources are knowlege based that communicate with industry or educational institutions or each other requiring large data bases or data trasfer (like a place were every cities trafic flow can be processed in close to real time and readjusted). With perhaps the most educated work force in history, and technolegy being applied to almost any industry, and a historical technical DJIA that runs in 20yr. cycles. Any concern about the econnomy should be little more than a signal of greater opportunity.

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