If connectedness is the chief difference between rural and urban areas, then broadband technology and other communication technology goals rise to the top of the list.

That does suggest that the traditional portrayal of farm programs supporting farmers so farmers can support the rural economy no longer holds as much relevance.

There is an increasing divergence between the performance of U.S. agriculture and the performance of rural America.

I've always tried to be involved with new technology and how it is involved in communication.

A rival editor in Philadelphia said that the spreading railroad network carried "New York everywhere" in terms of the city's predominant influence.

I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs.