Viodi View – The Bridge Between the Heartland and Silicon Valley

Category: Technology

  • Upward Urban & Rural Mobility via Autonomous Mobility

    It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words. The picture Selika Josiah Talbott chose for her virtual backdrop at the recent 2021 TRB Annual Automated Road Transportation Symposium sums up the mobility challenges that urban and rural locales face with existing infrastructure, particularly in low-income areas. Joining Talbott on this panel were…

  • Broadband Built Block-by-Block by Blockchain – Part 1 – Helium & LoRaWAN

    If broadband adds thousands of dollars to a home’s value, then why not unlock that value to help pay for the last-mile network? A form of this question was first posed in this Viodi View article, Property Assessed Broadband – A Bottoms Up Way to Build Community & Broadband. As shown in that article, this…

  • Augmenting the Human Worker with Cobots

    Introduction: Most industrial experts agree that robotics will be essential to adapt to changes brought upon by automation of manufacturing, labor shortages in warehouses, hazardous environments, and the shift to Electric Vehicles (EVs).  There are also geopolitical drivers for robotics including cybersecurity, climate change, and demographics.  However, there is little or no talk about cobots. …

  • NASA RAM Report – The Foundation for a Rural Air Revival

    As with so many of the developments in telecom and broadband, rural areas may provide the proving ground for the next generation of air travel. This is one of the important implications of NASA’s recently issued report, Regional Air Mobility (RAM). Investors, community leaders, policymakers, industry, and the general public are the target audience for…

  • Distributed Electric Aviation – a New Model of Intercommunity Connection

    Distributed Electric Aviation – a New Model of Intercommunity Connection

    Electric aviation is more than just cleaner and quieter skies. It has the potential to be a catalyst for both the revitalization of rural towns and outmigration from urban areas. These are a couple of the implications of the recent report, Distributed Aviation – A New Economic Model for Electric Aviation, from the United Kingdom-based, Advanced…

  • Dallas’ Floating Oasis Above a Concrete Desert

    Dallas’ Floating Oasis Above a Concrete Desert

    Like a floating oasis rising above a concrete desert, the Klyde Warren Park stands firmly above the congested Woodall Rodgers Freeway in the heart of Dallas. From the vantage point of a car, it is unremarkable and looks like any other short tunnel one would encounter on a typical highway. At street level, however, it…