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City of Glass

However, the construction and financial requirements of building out fiber-optic connections to homes make it impractical or wildly expensive in urban regions and other areas with a developed infrastructure. As a result, fiber-to-the-home services are largely becoming available in new housing developments or in smaller cities with municipal governments willing to take on the costs and headaches of recreating their infrastructure.
Study: Fiber-optic to make itself at home [c|net via Archipelago]

Rural areas are less developed because they're generally less accessible, because the costs of transportation are significantly higher. That's why the railroads and highways go in only to take out expensive natural resources. What happens when the urban areas are the less accessible ones?

What's the natural resource of a city?

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categories: Industry

Gah! I can't breathe!

Dan Gillmor considers single points of failure in our infrastructure.

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categories: Industry, Security