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Sometimes it seems to me that we don’t give ourselves enough credit in Virginia’s Blue Ridge. The truth is our region is grounded in innovation, and the innovation we see ....
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Congratulations to Northside High School grad (and Virginia Tech student) Daniel Pereira for being the number one pick in the recent Major League Soccer draft. ....
Today we introduce a new phrase to your vocabulary: Zoom town. From the beginning of the internet, rural communities were tantalized by its prospects. Some predicted âthe death of distanceâ â that it no longer mattered where people were as long as they could connect via technology. Socially, thatâs certainly been the case: We can now share cat pictures â or argue politics â with people anywhere thereâs a wifi connection. Economically, though, the internet hasnât lived up to its promises. Instead of prompting a rural renaissance, technology has only accelerated what economists call âthe great divergenceâ between urban and rural areas. It turns out that tech companies donât like distance, after all, they prefer density â to produce lots of off-line collaboration between people from different fields. In 2019, the Valleys Innovation Council â a tech-focused business group that covers the Roanoke and New River val ....