It is here the opportunity lies to educate ourselves and our children about the connection between business and the environment and the role of technology to enhance a region's competitiveness, even as it preserves the ecology of the land, air and sea for all its inhabitants. A quick check of the World Wide Web reveals the outlines of a national movement toward sustainable communities sweeping the nation. With advocates for sustainable communities joining forces with advocates for smart communities, the potential for moving from concept to reality and to yet a higher level of progress where cyberspace and cyberplace are one becomes obvious. These communities could help lead us out of the physical and, in many ways, spiritual, wasteland we have created. John Eger is CEO of the World foundation for Smart Communities, a nonprofit educational corporation dedicated to linking local communities to the Internet.
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