Most Digital-Savvy City in America? Not What You'd Think
Rob Long ·
March 24, 2012 at 6:24pm
Quick: which American city do you imagine is the most digitally active? Which spends the most money on downloads -- including Hulu and Netflix?
You're probably thinking San Francisco -- the cultural HQ of Silicon Valley -- or New York. Maybe even Los Angeles.
Wrong.
Interesting, no?
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Apr '11
Re: Most Digital-Savvy City in America? Not What You'd Think
It may surprise you Thirteen, but some of us in the middle of the country also have indoor plumbing and dentistry.
Oh I know!
But it's true, I swear.
Why I even have a cousin who's been on one of those new jet planes.
Well enough intranetting, I've gotta go slop the hogs and bale some hay maybe do whitlin' afterwhile.
May '10
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I would have guessed Raleigh or Atlanta.
Dec '11
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't Dallas been among the top performing cities during the recession? Aren't Hulu and Netflix discretionary purchases?
This isn't surprising at all.
Nov '10
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Yet another example of blatant Texism. As a parent of two Texans, I can imagine how they must feel to be singled out and maligned all the time.
Mar '11
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Doesn't surprise me a bit. The tech industry is huge in Texas, especially around Dallas. A lot of major companies have put their data centres in places like Dallas.
Who wants to pay for California' fiscal apocalypse?
And, of course, it's not likely to fall of the edge of the earth in The Big One.
Sep '10
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Can't be. The New York Times tells me that people down there are backward and bigoted. They're in Texas, for gosh sakes. It's not like people down there can do something like run a space program or something.
Edited on March 24, 2012 at 7:57pmOct '10
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That Dallas is #1 is interesting. That Texas has three cities in the top 10 is even more interesting. The #4 city is Austin, which is known as a tech industry town. But #8 is Plano. OK, forgive my ignorance all you Texans, but I never would have guessed Plano. Houston maybe, but not Plano.
Jun '10
Re: Most Digital-Savvy City in America? Not What You'd Think
Maybe it's all those Californians who moved to Dallas?
Jul '10
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Did not see that one coming.
Dec '10
Re: Most Digital-Savvy City in America? Not What You'd Think
I wonder if Texas's geography has something to do with it? It's a long ways between places in Texas, so perhaps downloading is simply a way to avoid long trips across town.
I also wonder if Texans' independent streak plays into it, where downloads represent the freedom to get what you want when you want it.
Aug '10
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I'd agree with Canuckski in #5. Texas (Dallas, Austin, Houston, San Antonio) have big growing tech industries. When I was looking for a software engineering job, in the second half of last year, a lot of them were located in Texas. More so than say 5 years ago.
Jul '10
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.... which American city do you imagine is the most digitally active?
That's because We leave Our internets running down Here. Once You dial-up You never wanna go through that again.
Feb '12
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It's funny how coastal conservatives point to Texas as having a superior form of government, but they're surprised at how advanced the people are. Dallas is a huge city, with a large tech presence, this result should surprise no one. Regarding Plano: it was farmland 25 years ago, but now it's where a lot of people live who have high paying jobs in Dallas and can't afford to live in Highland Park.
Feb '11
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Dallas/Richardson: base of Texas Instruments, the guys who built the first integrated circuit; Plano: site of EDS (since bought by HP). Us guys round here gots plenty o' computers 'n' stuff!
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This is anecdotal for sure, but the most "tech savvy" people I know don't use these paid services- for the simple reason that they use torrents or just don't have enough interest in TV/movies to pay for Netflix or Hulu.
Apr '11
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I hate to break anyone's bubble, but using Netflix or Hulu doesn't mean that you're tech-savvy. My husband and I recently bought my 80 year-old mother a TV with a Netflix app built in. She has become a Netflix junkie. Any group gathering we go to, she talks about the wonders of Netflix. Everyone jokes that we are going to have to send her Netflix Anonymous because she never comes out of her house anymore. She even sleeps with her remote in her hand.
Nope, Netflix isn't for only twenty-somethings anymore!
Apr '11
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Actually I don't think you understand how the defense industry flowered down here and all that technology flowed from that-- computers, internet, all of it. Most the white collar people work for places like General Dynamic, which is some of the Big Headed of the Tech Savvy people in the world.
My uncle was on the ground floor for the computer revolution in the early sixties by working out of Collins Radio, which was a huge airline innovator in onboard computers out of Garland.
Texas Instruments started as the Tandy Leather Company that made goods out of the hides that came out of the beef industry in Fort Worth and then expanded into what had been one of the largest computer and electronics makers in the world.
And the Tandys were cowpokes. Not all of them are as stupid as they'd like you to think.
They might just rob you of all your employers in California and con the Albertans to put a pipeline up to the only working refineries in the nation in Houston and charge you for it.
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No surprise Glenn Beck chose Texas for his internet TV headquarters. Texas is making good on its potential to become for the next hundred years what Chicago was over the past hundred -- the cultural and economic hub between the coasts.
Apr '11
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I don't think watching Netflix and Hulu makes one tech savvy. It's not like viewers have to write code or build Ethernet cables.Google is building fiber optic infrastructure in the KC area - but not in the areas where the high tech companies like Garmin and Honeywell are located.
Apr '11
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@DB Little - as a kid, used to travel to Dallas to visit relatives and was always fascinated by the giant antenna farm Collins had at the building on US-75. As a student, toured TI and E-Systems in Garland (though that wasn't very interesting since so much of their work was classified).
Used to be lots of telecom in DFW as well.