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
Plano is all part of Dallas now and all those industries that came out of the defense department turned into computer and satelitte companies. ALL that stuff came out of the service and that's why most us join is to learn how to do it. This has been going on since the end of WWII.
My uncle explained to me (when I was ten years old and five years before a personal computer anyone could afford existed) how everything could be turned into data. My friend's aunt was the one who first got a personal computer we could mess around with and taught us how to use it and these people had been bootleggers a generation earlier.
And all this came out of our going into the military. None that stuff has been anything but high tech for less forty years now. That was how the Valley became so high tech was working for Edwards to begin with. We just don't see any reason not to work for the service too. Mainly because only the military wants to try the most ridiculous things and actually accomplish them.
Apr '11
Re: Most Digital-Savvy City in America? Not What You'd Think
Rob, have you ever been to Dallas in the summertime? You save a fortune on air conditioning my not opening your door to the outside. Hulu/Netflix saves Texans money. Here in Santa Barbara, we don't watch as much Hulu/Netflix because, well, you've been here, you know....
Jul '11
Re: Most Digital-Savvy City in America? Not What You'd Think
1. Disposable income.
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2. Choice.
= Easy digital downloads
Entertainment is consumed like Pez or heroin or aircraft carriers - there's a market for it, and if you have some disposable Euros or the like, why waste time flipping around for something to watch when you can specifically choose what you want, when you want, from the comfort of a big sofa or a bed?
I can't tell you how embarrassingly delighted I was to get Netflix up on running through my Blu-Ray, but it was really as easy as clams.
Dec '10
Re: Most Digital-Savvy City in America? Not What You'd Think
How could a city populated by *gasp* Texans possibly have better technological infrastructure than places normally occupied by Californians? Everyone knows that Texans are... slow.
Rob, your prejudices are showing.
Dallas is a modern city with the advantage of being in a state run by an enlightened conservative Republican government.