Laptop to a kid in Ethiopia
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- detritus0
I remember reading something in the Economist years back, something which has proven true in China and every other country that didn't industrialise (or whatever) early...
...they can leap frog us by learning from our costly mistakes, and then capitalising on all the gains in decentralised tech that the world's been massively developing this last generation.
For instance - witness the rise in Mobile phone ownership in Africa, which (if memory serves) is upto something like 1/4 of the population .. including all those 'ever-so poor bastards in fucksville, nowhere'. Mobile masts, solar energy and cheap Chinese turbines are very quickly transforming Africa.
I think a lot of us in here (well, speaking for myself, anyway) still have our heads wrapped in overly-enthused early 80s depictions of the continent in total hapless disarray.
Digitally-delivered free education and decentralised infrastructures has hufe potential over there. All quite exciting really.
- turbines = generators, sorry.detritus
- China doesn't seem to be learning much from our mistakes, unfortunately. Terrible roads and infrastructure in a growing metropolismonospaced
- in a growing metropolis are all pointing to a disaster we don't even have here (western world).monospaced
- yepGeorgesII
- I was just saying much the same on another forum, mono - china has become a terrible disappointment in that regard over these last 5 years ro so..detritus
- regard over these last 5 years ro so..detritus