Technology
Osseo is one of the first cities in Minnesota to have a complete and fully operational city-wide wireless network available for use by residents, businesses and visitors. As of January, 2008, the myOsseo.com wireless network is accepting subscribers. There are various levels of subscription up to a full 3-megabits per second bi-directional access. This wireless network (based on the 802.11 standard) is a public/private partnership between the City of Osseo Economic Development Authority (EDA) and the service provider, Unplugged Cities. Revenue earned from the wireless service will be used to fund future EDA initiatives within the city.
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Famous quotes containing the word technology:
“One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they’ll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“Radio put technology into storytelling and made it sick. TV killed it. Then you were locked into somebody else’s sighting of that story. You no longer had the benefit of making that picture for yourself, using your imagination. Storytelling brings back that humanness that we have lost with TV. You talk to children and they don’t hear you. They are television addicts. Mamas bring them home from the hospital and drag them up in front of the set and the great stare-out begins.”
—Jackie Torrence (b. 1944)
“If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.”
—Freeman Dyson (b. 1923)