[The Urban Sombrero]

Ok, wanted to give this a bump... how well are your communities able to handle the infrastructure for the 22nd century? How many of your people in your communities have the workable skills to work in the next environment? I can not wait to read some of the comments.

Is it "progress" when human beings, their relationships and interactions and even faults and foibles, increasingly are viewed as "obstacles" to productivity?

A crude example: all the "if yes, press 1" automation certainly seems to please the corporate complex, but how does it feel to the consumer? I often want to scream, "Please, just let me talk to a person." What is the ultimate, non-monetary price of unthinkingly embracing all technology?

I do not think eastern Kentucky, as a whole, has embraced the way the world is headed. I have often wished with Harry Caudill that our region had established an Appalachian Mountain Authority (much like the TVA) to manage resources more wisely.