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I live in a rural area where there is no Comcast or Verizon. It's a half-hour drive to the nearest McDonald's or Walmart. We have three options for internet service - satellite, the regional cable company, and the local phone co-op. Satellite has metered data with low caps and the cable company maxes out at 1 mbps, which costs $50 a month plus fees. I have the lowest fiber plan from the phone company - 10 up, 10 down, and it's about $90 a month.

A lot of the people here can't come up with $90 a month. To reference just one metric, the median home value here is far less than half of the median home value for our state.

I agree that internet access is essential, and I can understand concerns about the big players like Comcast and Verizon, but I wish we had the option to use them here. They offer significantly faster internet for significantly less money.

What can be done to change the internet infrastructure in a community like mine, to allow more people the benefits of having an internet connection?

Next year I'm going to run for City Council, and I have a pretty good chance of getting in. As someone involved in local government, what steps could I take to ensure that the internet is accessible to everyone in the community?

tell us about this new way to visualize music? what applications does it have? is it something we could reproduce on our computers?

"attention is a dynamic, and inherently rhythmic process" - how can rhythm (in music or not) be used to manipulate attention? considering it, i can certainly see that rhythmic speech patterns capture people's attention. but 'attention' in the ADHD sense - can rhythm be used to significantly increase focus or something along those lines?

what was your favorite music in high school and undergrad?