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Can Tech Save Small Town America?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the nice-work-if-you-can-get-it dept.

theodp writes "Declaring that small town life no longer has to be separate from financial success thanks to technology, Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos told North Dakota state officials to take hope in people such as Napster's Shawn Fanning. Interesting remarks, considering that Fanning conceived Napster in small-town Boston and the jobs Amazon's brought to rural areas don't exactly scream financial success."

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  1. Re:Manifest Destiny is over! by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Who is this 'we' you speak of, and why are _you_ presuming to decide where someone else is allowed to live?