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Creating a New World one City at a Time
Posted by Mark Hewitt in Broadband, Cooperatisim, Economy, Trust, US Broadband Coalition on January 23rd, 2012
I was recently struck by two seemly unrelated topics that were mentioned in Jim Baller’s daily broadband list under the title “America’s Competitiveness” One in the New York Times talks about a technology summit held at the White House where Obama asked Steve Jobs what would it take for America to keep the jobs that produce the iPhone? The second article in The Atlantic Cities talks about empowering Regions to reinvent themselves.
We are approaching a time where more than half of the world’s population lives in Cities; there is no Nation in the World today that can survive without at least one thriving city population. Cities have become the urban economic engine to the regional economy that surrounds it.
A third element “The Internet” has also made its impact on the world and again yet another article in Jim’s list on Read the rest of this entry »
Today marks the birth of Broadband
Posted by Mark Hewitt in Broadband, Broadband Stimulus, Science and Engineering, US Broadband Coalition on January 6th, 2012
This day January 6th 1838 Samuel Morse’s telegraph system was demonstrated for the first time at the Speedwell Iron Works in Morristown, New Jersey. For those of you to young to remember Morse Code (required for FCC 1st class licenses) sent a series of pulses long and short that was used to transmit words and information over wire. This invention would eventually revolutionize long distance communications and yes today’s Internet where the pulses are streams of data.
The Telegraph was truly an invention and spurred millions of new ideas creating what today is a world wide network bridging the gap between Nations and People.
My Congratulations to a real inventor and a healthy acknowledgement of Samuel Morse’s impact on the world.
Ask not what your Country can do for you….
Posted by Mark Hewitt in Broadband, Cooperatisim, Earth Day, Economy, NASA, Science and Engineering, US Broadband Coalition on December 7th, 2010
Nasa First Moon Landing
Just shy of 50 years ago on January 20th 1961 then President John F. Kennedy (part of the Hewitt family tree) issued his now famous speech “Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You” calling a nation together to rise and eliminate human poverty and to remember and hold fast to the vision and belief that our forebears fought so hard to make possible. A few short months later Kennedy ignited the dream of putting a Man on the moon; rising to the challenge of Sputnik; American business and science teams rose to achieve success on one of the greatest challenges in human history.
Today we also are faced with a world leading in the face of our petty bickering and economic manipulation. It is again time to rise to the same challenge that Kennedy called for in the 60’s to become the greatest nation on the earth; working to achieve leadership in our energy, environmental, and educational shortfalls.
America today has fallen behind on almost every front; investment, science, manufacturing, business, education, communications; leadership will not come from our government; or our political parties; leadership will come from “We The People” it is our responsibility to seek out and secure our own goals; to lead not follow.
This next week I am fortunate to be attending one of the world’s leading entrepreneurial conferences; with an over a 20 year history of Read the rest of this entry »