By Sheldon Johnson, Bemidji Pioneer
“Take a moment and picture a high school student at his home or local library in rural Minnesota taking online courses from a technical college in the Twin Cities. Imagine a doctor in Rochester advising a patient in Grand Rapids via a video-conference about the best treatment options available for a serious illness or performing tele-surgery from thousands of miles away using robotics. Envision a farmer in southern Minnesota buying his cattle in an online livestock auction.
All these can and will be realized — as long as we have the appropriate broadband speeds and infrastructure. While Minnesota and the Unites States were once leaders in broadband penetration and speed, we have fallen behind.”
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