What . To do my home washing. Unless you are in the right spot. Now techknow investigates the politics of technology. Can you talk about the companies. Its the haves, versus the have nots. Digital device right down the street. Missing . Exactly. This man has designed everything from bionic eyes to space devices. Some science. Hey guys, welcome to techknow. When you hear chattanooga, tennessee, youing dont necessarily think of a digital hub, but they have the fastest hemisphere. In chattanooga every resident has a whole gigabit. How long would it take to download a movie . Two minutes. The u. S. Rates 26th on the Global Internet speed. If you go right outside chattanooga, they are still using satellite and dialup, there is nothing else. It represents the Digital Divide we see around the world. Lets take a look. Its 5 00 pm on a thursday afternoon and High School Senior paton is at his church just tennessee. The church, most people come here to pray, but you come here for what . I come here to do my homework. Most of the time because our internet is so poor at home, i have to come here. We have Satellite Service at home, so after we go through a certain amount of data, our internet gets slowed down to about half the speed of connection. Remember back in the 80s when dialup was a must. What do you need to establish a connection . Youll need a computer and a modem. Patience and a sense of humor will go a long way. But no one has patience for a 56k dialup today. Not when fiber optics are available. You can download a featurelength hd movie in about 30 seconds. The technology of this, but few cities in america have it, and the first city in america to attain it wasnt new york or san francisco. It was a city better known for its Southern Charm and rural living. An american town more famous for chattanooga, tennessee. Im going to go to youtube and im going to watch the trailer for bird man, and its already halfway loaded. Thats incredible. You can just instantly instant movies at your disposal. Why doesnt the rest of america have these speeds . Why chattanooga . Most cities havent made the investment and spent the resource in order to be able to do it. This isnt fancy, anyone can do what they have done. Tom hoover heads up Information Technology for the university of tennessee chattanooga chattanooga. Chattanoogas socalled gig isnt fancy, but this is about the politics of big cable. Chattanooga was like most u. S. Cities until the municipal Power Company came to the rescue. Comcast, and the state Cable Association sued not once, but twice to prevent epb from digging the gig to chattanooga. I havent realize what i was going to be up against. Tennessee state senator is a key player in the legislative battle to bring the gig to the rest of tennessee. Can you talk about the lob being presence of these Big Companies in tennessee. The hill was swarming with new lobbyists representing at t, comcast, and charter. My name was not used in nice context by a lot of people at that point. We need this in tennessee and across america. 2010. The latest upgrades were not coming to chat gu that. David wade is the operating officer of epb. They also brought ultrahighspeed internet to the citizens. They raised bond money and federal stimulus funds to build the network, now in addition to providing electricity, they provide highspeed internet, phone, and television to more businesses. What would you do with that . So many things. I wouldnt have to come to the money. Paton is one of the 19 million americans who do not have access to dsl or cable in their home. In major cities like miami, cleveland, new orleans, dallas, and philadelphia, over a third to nearly half of households lack any option for highspeed internet. But in chattanooga, the map tells a story of have and have nots that is difficult to understand. Paytons family invited me into their home in bradley county, just outside of chattanooga. It may look like any other residential suburb, but this section of town is different. You can see the Digital Divide just down the street. Yeah. Just a few miles down from their home the internet moves at a speed of a gigabit. When you bought this house, did it occur to you that you wouldnt have Internet Access . When we came out and toured there are cable jacks in four of the rooms here in the house, so we had never thought that we wouldnt have access to any kind of cable service. So far there has been no Cable Company willing to provide service to their street, not at t, not comcast, not charter. We had three different tech nicks come out, and the last guy came out and said, listen, im just going to be honest, even if you do pay for the wire to be laid, they are not going to provide service. Epb wants to provide service, but state law wont let them. Recently eva van hook traveled to washington to participate in hearings on the matter. She has to go 12 miles so her son can see the biology videos he needs to have for the next days classes. Folks outside of our territory are standing up and starting grass root efforts. In the meantime epb is reluctant to expand until the laws are changed. Meanwhile the battle is being watched closely by other states. Satellite. Have you ever read a book internet. No, i havent. Thats what it is like. Thats thats about the speed were talking about. Video . Well try to watch the meeting. Okay. You just clicked that. [ laughter ] its not even going to like it its right there, you can see its kind of thinking about it really hard. Oh, there we go oh, it popped up. Kind of. Slow clap for the internet. Coming up next, we see what the gig can do. And find out how fast the internet can really go. Future. We want to hear what you think about these stories. Join the conversation by following us on twitter and at tomorrow. I thought we were doing something good. Bodies donated for science. How much regulation exists . Very little. A shocking look inside the world of body brokers. Got a call from the fbi saying we have your husbands remains. An america tonight exclusive investigation. Tomorrow, 10 00 eastern. Only on al jazeera america. Inside story takes you beyond the headlines, beyond the quick cuts, beyond the sound bites. Were giving you a deeper dive into the stories that are making our world what it is. Ray suarez hosts inside story. Only on al jazeera america. In the late 1800s, chattanooga, tennessee was a city of steel, a hub for the foundry business, but that steel eventually turned to rust. By the 90s, its downtown was a virtual ghost town, but today, this midsized city has reinvented its a as a tech hub due in large part to what they call the gig. One gigabit per second. If you had the worlds do. This is a nonprofit which nurtures startups. We started some programs. Gig tank that colab produces. One of the startups is a company that creates custom 3d models of organs for medical scans like mris. An mri comes in, you put it through your algore rhythms, it creates this shape in about 30 seconds, and it goes to a 3d printer and out comes this. Exactly. Theres a tumor inside of here. Where they can put the mri on steroids, if you will, having where they can hold it, take it apart, plan, actually practice the surgery, thats tremendous to them. And its not just entrepreneurs that have come here. According to the fcc the big helped lure Big Companies to the area. President obama even highlighted chattanooga as one of the few places in america that can complete with places like seoul and hong kong when it comes to internet speed. Citizens got together and made the investment to bring competition in and make sure internet speeds are just as fast there as anywhere else. The u. S. Currently ranked number 26 in internet speed. Thats sad. Why is that sad . We should be world leaders. Be. But its not just economic advantages. There are also Educational Opportunities that chat gu that students can boast being the first to enjoy. Across town, at a Science Magnet High School called the s. T. E. M. School, students are about to operate a 4k microscope that is located at the university of southern california. Have you ever been to chattanooga . I have never been to chattanooga. My first glimpse of the river will be with microscopic samples. Samples. Yes. The students move the stage around, and they are enclosing away. Its so beautiful. I think everyones mind is blown that were watching this real time across the country. This is known as a genie rack located at the university of tennessee, chattanooga. Its essentially the next generation of internet. You can do simulations, highspeed computing, and really test out things that, you know, traditionally you cant. The genie rack will usher in the internet of the future, and it has always been enabled by technology. You have unlimited capacity into the future, all you have to do is change the electronics on the end to get more capacities. Coleman king is the director of Fiber Technology at epb. How through. Up to 10 gigabits through every fiber. But while the city of chattanooga may be contemplating a 10gig or even 100gig future the gap between the internet haves and have nots have widens. Ironically at the s. T. E. M. School, some of the students have trouble getting their home. Is doing your homework hard . It can be. Because like its satellite internet, so it is based on like weather and stuff, so if its really cloudy out, then im going to have trouble, like being able to go on to webpages and stuff. Have you ever not been able to do your homework . Yes. And you tell your teacher, sorry my internet died . I have told them, but they [ laughter ] currently 19 states pre represented municipal broadband to exist, why is that . We get poised that epb is picking on these little mom and pops like at t and comcast that are significantly [ laughter ] i dont know any reason why that would be a good thing. I think competition raises the bar for everyone. The battle is indeed heating up. As of may 2015, google fibers service is available in kansas, provo, coming to atlanta, nashville, charlotte, and raleigh durham. Comcast recently announced it would start offering two Gigabit Service in atlanta, fort lauderdale, and chattanooga. But for now payton and his family have to fight on. You cant visit your sites load. I cant visit them or administrate them. I have to do it all at school. We reached out to eva van hook who said she was surprised to see Charter Cable trucks parked outside of her family home. So we asked her to take pictures for us. So it seems that after 11 long years of asking, the van hooks may finally have Better Internet service. Techknow asked charter whether their decision to wire the block was based on the van hooks activism and support . And a spokeswoman told us, quote techknow awls also reached out to at t, comcast, and others for comment on the Digital Divide. There was no comment. Well be right back. Tomorrow. You know his music but what about the man . I was given a gift. Up close and personal. Behind the scenes of the biggest hits. She was a troubled girl. Brightest stars. Kids dont want to own, they just want to play. And the future of music. The record business is in trouble. Every tuesday night. I lived that character. Go one on one with americas movers and shakers. We will be able to see change. Gripping. Inspiring. Entertaining. Talk to al jazeera. Tomorrow, 6 30 eastern. Welcome back to techknow. Phil has a really fascinating one. Because i have never been jealous of a dog before, until i met these dogs. They travel around the world saving endangered species, and fight Invasive Species right here in the u. S. Lets take a look. Er in pullson, montana, this byologist is using one of the most effective tools available to prevent an Invasive Species invasion. Her dog is trained to sniff out endangered species as well as Invasive Species. When did this ideas get started . Field byologists have taken their pet dogs out with them all the time. And that dog the nature of dogs, you know, oh, are you looking for this . I can help you this. What they do differently is that they are trained to find something and maybe this month were working on one thing, and then next month well be working on something else. No muscles there. No. On this deployment, the dogs will be working to detect muscles, zebra muscles will coat industrial pipes and cause harmful bacteria. The Great Lakes Region of the u. S. Is considered ground zero where mussels were first introduced. So far montana is the last state to remain free. Scent. Here. Teeia, a German Shepherd just returned from her work with blunt nose leopard mussels. She knows 11 scents. And lilly was abandoned by five different homes before coming a conservation dog. Okay. We got the thumbs up. Are these dogs traditional family dogs . These dogs dont make great pets. They are high energy, high focus, high energy, they are the kind of dogs where if they dont have a job they are digging up the backyard. They tend to be dogs that are at increased risk for euthanasia. Because they are too much dog for most families. But on this assignment their intensity is just right. Happened . We bring a dog out on leash, and start at one side of the hitch and work around the boat with the dog, and the dog will independently pick a lot of places to sniff, and our job is to identify other places we would like them to check. Using a test example of crushed frozen mussels they demonstrate how a dog will alert if she does find a mussel. She is right. Good girl. She found it. Good girl. Discite all of the Technology Used around the world, nothing is better than or less expensive than what Mother Nature has already provided in the form of a dogs nose. Thats because a dogs nose has about 300 million oh olfactory receptors. The oh factory portion of a dogs brain is also about 6 times bigger than ours is. The dogs have been deployed to 18 states and 13 countries around the world. Protecting endangered species is another huge part of their work. Good boy. At a Bozeman School thousands of miles away from her next deployment in africa, megan is training scent. Were training dogs to sniff out ivory in africa. They will stop vehicles suspected of 134ug smuggling ivory. Animal poaching has become a global problem. Estimates are hundred elephants a day are dying, 30,000 elephants a year. If it continues at this rate, elephants could be extinct within a decade. This is the biggest chunk that we have. Well put it here. This is just peppins second day of training. So we were able to see how new dogs pick up new scents. He is so happy to work. I think in ten years time, virtually every agency, every university, you know, nonprofits will all have their own dog teams working. Thank you. Phil, i want to know what treats they are feeding these dogs. Is there a technology that rivals what these dogs can do . They dont even need to give them treats. They just give them their favorite toy. These dogs just love this game of detecting stuff. We dont hear much about Invasive Species. How big is this problem . It doesnt seem like the most appealing thing to report on, but its a 120 billion every year in this u. S. So it is huge. I think we had this amazing combination of tech and nature today. 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