Re:Former miners out to put Kentucky on the tech map
by bsder on Saturday April 22, 2017 @07:22PM
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> Pittsburgh came back from losing its steel industry.
Not really. It's still down population almost 10% from 2000.
Losing Westinghouse was a gigantic loss--and it didn't need to happen. Westinghouse should have been a source for tech talent during the Dot Com boom to combine with CMU and Pitt students. Instead Pittsburgh was a technology desert in that same time (I remember trying to find WiFi hotspots there in 2000-2002 and people staring at me like I was from Mars).
Not really. It's still down population almost 10% from 2000.
Losing Westinghouse was a gigantic loss--and it didn't need to happen. Westinghouse should have been a source for tech talent during the Dot Com boom to combine with CMU and Pitt students. Instead Pittsburgh was a technology desert in that same time (I remember trying to find WiFi hotspots there in 2000-2002 and people staring at me like I was from Mars).