In a front-page article this morning on Arnold Schwarzenegger’s re-election campaign — and fast-changing political views — the Wall Street Journal referred to “the technology-obsessed streets of Sacramento.” (Article here, but subsciption required, alas.)
The phrase really stopped me. Does the WSJ have us confused with San Jose? Granted, we’re likely higher on the high-tech scale than a lot of places, but aside from having Intel and H-P in the ‘burbs and wi-fi on the Capitol Mall, I can’t say I’d describe us as “technology obsessed.” Not like Orlando, where every place you open your laptop you have a wi-fi connection (or so it seemed to me).
Am I wrong here? Are we really the high-tech paradise the WSJ seems to think we are?
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I think the WSJ has its wires crossed. There are numerous California cities more tech-obsessed than Sacramento. In fact, among the major Western cities, Sactown has to be near the bottom in terms of tech-obsessiveness.
posted 6/05/06 at 7:58 am #
Unless the only place they surveyed was Peet’s, and they noticed that nearly everyone (mostly the people who look like they don’t work, interestingly enough) are all Bluetoothed & WiFi’ed out.
posted 6/05/06 at 8:28 am #
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