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Editorial: Are we a Zoom town? Not yet


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 “the death of distance” – that it no longer mattered where people were as long as they could connect via technology.
Socially, that’s certainly been the case: We can now share cat pictures – or argue politics – with people anywhere there’s a wifi connection. Economically, though, the internet hasn’t lived up to its promises. Instead of prompting a rural renaissance, technology has only accelerated what economists call “the great divergence” between urban and rural areas. It turns out that tech companies don’t like distance, after all, they prefer density – to produce lots of off-line collaboration between people from different fields. In 2019, the Valleys Innovation Council – a tech-focused business group that covers the Roanoke and New River val ....

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