Some interesting ideas that should be pursued further for the telecom rebuild of the Gulf coast and New Orleans. However, as with all good ideas, they must be tempered with the reality as expressed in the concluding paragraph in this Washington Post article.
"Anthony Townsend, research director at the Institute for the Future in California, pointed out that many of those high-flown ideas could run up against a fundamental problem: The services rely on electricity, which often goes out during such disasters. The nation must focus on finding more flexible ways of distributing power, he said."
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