A thought that’s been at the back of my mind: technology specifically designed with the poor in mind (as opposed to stuff just getting cheaper as it rides cost curves to commoditization) inevitably ends up being technology designed to keep them poor.
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What’s the dynamic that “keeps them poor”? For OLPC, is it training on the wrong software ecosystem? Or taking the place of some other kind of product? Something else?
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I don’t have a theory or argument yet. That’s why it’s just a hypothesis.
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Just wondered if you had an example you were trying to generalize. Ineffectiveness seems easier to demonstrate.
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