Un-Plain Ways to Reinvent the Plains. Laurent Belsie.
by Belsie, Laurent; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 25Environment. Publisher: Christian Science Monitor, 2003ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): American bison | Diversification in industry | Great Plains | Information technology | Internet -- Connections | North Dakota | Regional planning | Rural development | Wildlife reintroduction | Wind powerDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Seven years ago [1996], this isolated oil and ranching community staked a claim to the digital frontier. It wired itself with advanced telecommunications, advertised on the Internet, and waited for droves of info-entrepreneurs to come and set up shop. But a funny thing happened on the way to the future. The droves never came. And this hard-working community on the edge of the Badlands in Theodore Roosevelt National Park learned an important lesson. Technology alone can't save the heartland. What it needs is a new vision, a new way of defining itself that can rally its residents, corral their engines, and appeal to the rest of America." (CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR) This article identifies visionary ways in which rural communities are trying to revitalize their economies, social cohesiveness and government services.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Un-Plain Ways to Reinvent the Plains, Feb. 14, 2003; pp. n.p..
"Seven years ago [1996], this isolated oil and ranching community staked a claim to the digital frontier. It wired itself with advanced telecommunications, advertised on the Internet, and waited for droves of info-entrepreneurs to come and set up shop. But a funny thing happened on the way to the future. The droves never came. And this hard-working community on the edge of the Badlands in Theodore Roosevelt National Park learned an important lesson. Technology alone can't save the heartland. What it needs is a new vision, a new way of defining itself that can rally its residents, corral their engines, and appeal to the rest of America." (CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR) This article identifies visionary ways in which rural communities are trying to revitalize their economies, social cohesiveness and government services.
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