Our Digital Futures: Policies for Broadband Connectivity in Remote and Rural Communities of Ireland and Scotland

A funny thing happened on (he way to 2005: the digital revolution actually became real. Walk around any city or town and what do you see? You see young people text messaging; commuters jamming to their iPods; friends snapping photos on their camera phones. Look a bit further, and you see doctors' decisions aided by patient information called up on hand-held devices; teachers using wireless technology as tools; parents printing photos on cordless printers before leaving their children's football games..... It's a revolution in any sense of the word. But I have another name for it: a warm-up act. We are entering an era where everything is going digital. It's going to be the main event of our lives for decades to come'. (Carly Fiorina, CEO Hewlett-Packard: Totally Digital', in The Economist The World in 2005, p. 128).