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chosen to stay, understands how beautiful and unspoiled the county is in comparison to other regions.
Because of this concern for aesthetics, I have opposed many of the development proposals that have been floated for the county. Because of this concern for aesthetics, my wife Vandy and I have renovated and beautified our office-formerly Mrs. Bradford’s House— in Flint Hill in a way which I think most people will find in keeping with the taste of the county. But I cannot go along with the public attacks on the Sprint proposal.
People choose to live here because of a combination of beauty and reasonable infrastructure: they expect to have the basics: telephones, electricity, highways, reasonable proximity to hospitals and to law enforcement. In other words, they expect to have most of the benefits of modern American life-and as long as this is true, they're not too upset by the 40-minute drive to the supermarket.
This currently reasonable infrastructure will, in one fell swoop, become creaky and unworkable if we don't move into the wireless future in a big way. The digital future is here. The wireless future is here. And Rapphannock County must not be left behind.
Wireless Internet Access:
Within five years from now-or it may be only two or three-the rest of the nation will be able to work digitally and without wires. Do we really want Rappahannock County to continue to offer nothing better than frequently-static-interrupted modem transmissions via old phone wires - and then only when one is willing to stay stationary and to completely dispense with the use of handheld devices that are expected to become ubiquitous?
If this is the way we play our hand we may find that have unwittingly dealt a death blow to the idea that people can do some of their work here in the county rather than being forced to commute to Fairfax every day of the week. (You cannot "telecommute" without a reasonable "tele.") We may have unwittingly killed the idea that students can be introduced at school or at home to the latest in computing. We may find we have backed ourselves into an astoundingly thorny technological disaster.
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