Not Surprised (Score 1)

Was I surprised to see that nowhere in the United States made the list? More like I expected no place in the United States to make the list. Granted, I will say places like Seattle, Cleveland, and San Francisco are likely the cutting edge of tech-savvy cities in the US, but nothing like the cities mentioned on the list. Here under the good old red, white, and screwed we must constantly hear bickering people who don't want to technically evolve with the rest of the world, and it shows. I live in a community about 40 miles west of St. Louis, and due to the way the certain agreements and infrastructure is laid out, people on the north side of Interstate 70 can have digital cable, broadband cable/DSL up to 10Mbps, IP telephone service...basically all the top-end services. If you live on the south side of Interstate 70, you'd be lucky if you could even get DSL service. Issues like this are one of many as to why the United States doesn't evolve with the rest of the world. Our cars don't have emission/economy standards like the rest of the world, we will be one of the last developed countries to officially adopt digital televisions (Bush delayed until 2009 I believe), and for many people, broadband internet access is a thing of dreams. Our super-billion dollar cellular providers still can't even promise they'll have service where you live or work (advertising that you have the fewest dropped calls is still a negative point). The real trouble is, we're almost headed right back to the stone age again - AT&T has almost risen again to become Ma Bell, and this time she'll even be more of a pain because she now controls a large portion of the cellular market. I know for the next 25 years it will be a lot of beating my head into a brick wall. But it's what I've come to expect from the only remaining superpower.