Reposted by John Dryzek
For a brief moment in the 1990s, the Telecottage and Televillage offered new pathways for home-based work & rural regeneration, powered by cutting-edge technology. Read Rose Dryzek's new article on what the failure of that vision reveals about late 20thC Britain. academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...
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Communities of the future? Telecottages and the televillage in 1990s Britain
Abstract. In the early 1990s, it seemed that new technologies were opening up new possibilities for the organization of work and community life. This artic