Before the end of this year my hometown of Highland, Illinois will begin activating service for its new municipal fiber to the home project. I’ve followed the project passively over the last two years as it evolved from idea to certainty, and it is one that I have favored since the idea was early in its conception. Spending this summer in Highland I have had the pleasure of seeing wire being strung around town for the first phase of the project and the sprouting of small utility cabinets unobtrusively tucked away.