Streaming HD Public Broadcasting on the web?
Doctors that make webcam house calls?
Time travel?
Hey, it could happen. After all, 1 Gigabit per second is fast. 100-times-faster-than-the-connection-you’re-using fast. And it just may come to Durham.
See, we’re competing to be THE location of Google’s trial 1 Gbps fiber-optic network- Google Fiber. It’s a hot bid, and some cities have gone so far as to change their names to impress the almighty G.
Like Topeka, which is now Google, Kansas or Sarasota, now Google Island, Florida. Duluth, excuse me, “Google Twin Ports,” even jokingly called for all first-born male children to be named “Google Fiber.”
In the midst of this Google arms race, Durham is taking a different road, not flaunting how far they’ll go for Google Fiber, but how far they’ll go with it.
The Durham community has created a site to gather support, show their credentials and share ideas. And that’s where you come in.
Durham needs you to visit HiFiberDurham.com and post what you would do, could do, and will do with Internet that makes anything possible.
Us in an eye-catching nutshell:
Image by Nick Jones