'People who thought that developing countries could benefit from the e-economy had no idea what it meant to live on $1 a day with no electricity,' said [X]. 'You're just buying food; you're trying to stay alive.'
[X] became positively vitriolic about the idea of using computers in the Third World: 'Mothers are going to walk right up to that computer and say, "My children are dying, what can you do?" They're not going to sit there and, like, browse eBay or something.
'What they want is for their children to live. Do you really have to put in computers to figure that out?'