For $150, Third-World Laptop Stirs a Big Debate

Fri Dec 1 05:31:43 UTC 2006

On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 07:02:50PM -0500, John Van Ostrand wrote:

>I see this as a way to get the information people need to survive and
>improve their lives.
>
>Sadly it may also come with "Westernization". Fast food, sex, violence,
>advertising, parasitic cults, etc, may be the virus that the Internet
>brings to these civilizations.

I'm pretty sure they have sex now - in fact, that's a problem in itself,
according to organizations like the Stephen Lewis Foundation or the WHO.
As for violence, they have that in spades in most of the poor
countries, and I'm sure they'd be very happy to watch it on TV rather
than in their homes and communities.
-- 

yours,

William

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