There is also the question of what type of investment best serves a community. In Detroit, the needs of the community and its underlying assets are overwhelmingly analog. “Forty-seven percent of adults in Detroit are functionally illiterate,” said Gary Sands, a former Detroit city planner and retired professor at Wayne State University, as we ate lunch next to the Shinola store. “Compuware [a Detroit software company], Twitter, and Google aren’t gonna do these folks any good. They’re an analog population.” The problem is that analog jobs aren’t sexy in the way tech jobs are to politicians,
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What about Quicken Loans in Detroit. they're not an analog company even ehen thisbook was written it was a major employment force in Detroit and much of their success rides on a comprehensive digital platform.