[AGL] report from the front lines

[Frances Morey]

Internet access in rural areas could be as revolutionary as the Rural
Electrification Association was. That was big.
Best,
Frances

On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 1:14 PM Frances Morey <frances.morey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Reversing this spacial aspect of conferencing, learning and
> interacting with various groups could fundamentally re-form society. I hope
> that would be for the better. Now isolating ones self by "going back to the
> country" could become less doable. John Clay one time wrote an endearing
> song about that trend, when people formed cult groups to escape city life.
> I would love to see the lyrics on that one once more.
> Best,
> Frances
>
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 1:08 PM Charles Loving <lovingigor at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Zoom will have zero effect here. The SWTexas Phone Co is installing high
>> speed internet out here. I have it at the house and since I don't use my
>> cell phone it is a mute point. The local poverty level is well below the
>> national level. The education level is lacking as well. Rick ranchers make
>> money while the city suffers.
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 12:39 PM Michael Eisenstadt <
>> mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 4/3/2020 12:01 PM, Charles Loving wrote:
>>> > No idea what Zoom is? The internet doesn't work for rural people very
>>> > well. I doubt that 50% of the people in this county even have a
>>> > computer. They have a phone and maybe a smart phone. I don't use my
>>> > cell phone out here because there is no service. So the farmers and
>>> > ranchers are without Zoom or Food delivery.
>>> No, you are not eligible for home delivery from HEB. But the lack of
>>> Internet in the boonies is addressed in the 2 trillion dollar bailout.
>>> Free Obamaphones will again be available and the infrastructure to
>>> provide Internet to all and sundry will be coming to your neighborhood.
>>>
>>> Zoom turns out to be an interactive browser-based application that allow
>>> remote conferencing. In my case, it was a seminar with about 6
>>> individuals taking turns to say something. If the participants enabled
>>> video on their computer, others could see them in their study as well as
>>> hear them. Predictably all the professors participating from home sat in
>>> front of wall-to-wall bookcases full of books. Zoom's stock price
>>> doubled recently - no surprise.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Charlie Loving
>>
>
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