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High-tech utopia fails

Series: Financial Times ; 25 October 2000, 3(1)Publication details: 2000Subject(s): Summary: Acorn televillages struggles to complete its utopian vision as financer Triodos Bank calls in the receivers on a project at Crickhowell. The high-technology televillage created to revolutionise the way residents live and work, is still waiting for the telecentre and fibre-optic network promised in the original plans.

Acorn televillages struggles to complete its utopian vision as financer Triodos Bank calls in the receivers on a project at Crickhowell. The high-technology televillage created to revolutionise the way residents live and work, is still waiting for the telecentre and fibre-optic network promised in the original plans.