On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 09:21:57AM -0500, Nathan Newman wrote:
> Can you guess who this anti-technology development activist is?
> [If you already know, no cheating. Let a few folks guess].
>
> '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?'
>
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-- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929
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