Late last month, Google announced it’s super-fast internet, “Fiber”, was coming to Atlanta.

We were told it would be many years before it would come to full fruition, but the process was in motion.  Google even has cute, little icons and FAQs on its website to appease you in the meantime. We discovered the super-fast internet service was competitively priced with Comcast and other current providers.  We also learned you could get slower service free for 7 years after paying a $300 installation fee.

That’s all well and good, but will Google Fiber alter the larger Atlanta digital or business landscape?

Will we see tech startups begin popping up along Ponce or Peachtree Street? Will local cable providers catch up and improve their service?  Will Fiber bridge the digital divide between upper and lower income households, as has been touted?

These are the questions the good folks at Fast Company recently looked into in an article, “Lessons from Google’s First Roll Out of Google Fiber“.

The article includes many interesting nuggets from studying the Google Fiber rollout in Kansas City, including:

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