This was highlighted on Infowars because it was written in 2010 and uses a epidemic as the mdel for the police state scenario ( including a govt that refuses to lock down borders)
But all if it is quite illuminating from the view point of seeing how the Statist Academic sees the world. But this was the best part for me..
Not surprisingly, across much of the developing world the rural-urban divide gaped wider,
as more limited availability and access to resources like IT and trade made survival and self-sufficiency much more challenging for non-urban dwellers. ...
Communications and interactions that formerly served to bridge one family or one village or one student with their counterparts in other places from emailing to phone calls to web posting became less reliable.
Makeshift, “good enough” technology solutions addressing everything from water
purification and harnessing energy to improved crop yield and disease control emerged to fill
the gaps. Communities grew tighter. Micro- manufacturing, communal gardens, and patchwork energy grids were created at the local level for local purposes. Many communities took on the aura of co-ops, some even launching currencies designed to boost local trade and bring communities closer together.
High-speed internet access which gradually emerged in some areas despite weak government or philanthropic support did help, enabling students in isolated pockets in the developing world to access knowledge and instruction through the written word and other media like video.
Garden allotments proliferate in mega-cities as new urban-dwellers seek to supplement a scarce food supply and maintain their agricultural heritage.
Got that? Rural areas won't be self-sufficient because they don't have the internet so they can learn how to repair machinery or grow food. And you need email to talk to family. You know, unless they are living on the same farm with you. Yo kid, get your nose out of that iDevice and look down while you are flying over the midwest. Do you really think rural areas aren't really self sufficient?
And you can't have a Wide Area Network with links to the internet unless a government builds it ( but you CAN have local area that produce their own power - apparently without govt help - apparently because they are socialist co-ops filled with good liberal leaning hippies )
I just hope the ones planning this power grab are really THIS STUPID.
