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Podcast: This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro
Episode: Better, Faster, Cheaper: Akron's Plan To Bridge The Digital Divide
Description: So much has changed since the pandemic shut down that started four years ago this week, and one of those things is how much more dependent we all are on technology.
Going to work and to school suddenly became doable from home, but only for those with fast and reliable internet connections. Those who could not count on them, were left having to use less reliable connections through mobile phones, or public Wi-Fi at the library, coffee shops, and restaurants like McDonalds.
Even that was hard, though, because those places shut down too, in the early months of the pandemic...