From the Rural Health Futures home office in Fort Collins, Colorado...
THE TOP TEN PHILOSOPHIES OF RURAL COMMUNITIES THAT FAIL TO FIND THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY!
10. Let's apply for a grant!
[corollary: Let the federal or state government bring the information superhighway to us!]
9. How can we collaborate with that them? They beat us in the 1949 conference football championship!
8. It's the technology stupid!
7. If we build it, they will come.
6. We'll need fiber, ATM or ISDN first.
[corollary 1: You {the local phone company} should be installing fiber optics, an ATM network or ISDN!, corollary 2: We're {the community} designing a fault tolerant network first.]
5. We already have an Internet provider.
4. Overheard at a community technology user group meeting ... "We know what our community wants"
3. We'll {the community} just replace the local phone company.
2. We could never do that!
[corollary 1: We can't afford it!, corollary 2: People in our community would never understand., corollary 3: We have a lot of older folks in our community., corollary 4: We're just a farming and ranching community.]
1. I can't be the one responsible for getting my community together.
[corollary: I think the school or hospital should do it.]
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