Every night after you've purchased online, Memphis, North America's distribution capital, comes alive as the workhorse of the Internet. When it comes to Memphis and the Internet, there is no busy signal. The connection is easy to make. Someone has to pick that order out of inventory, someone has to sort it, someone has to load it, someone has to ship it and someone has to deliver it. This is North America's distribution capital, where air cargo, rail, river and highway systems converge to make an infrastructure cocktail tantalizing enough for any company with a product to ship.
Distribution is simply what the city does best.
So, it's easy to make the connection between Memphis and the Internet, but things get tricky in terms of connection speeds and download times. And these are just a few questions facing Memphis in the years ahead. There are few answers and plenty of speculation about what lies ahead. Yet, piecing together a few snapshots, one can at least get a glimpse of the future. Memphis, the Silicon Valley of the Mid South.