At 09:21 AM 1/7/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Can you guess who this anti-technology development activist is?
>[If you already know, no cheating. Let a few folks guess].
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>'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.'
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>[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.
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>'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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