“I think the technology is cool....It’s a great idea - RIGHT UP TO THE POINT that it gives dictators power like we’ve never seen before. And that is always BAD.”
I knew a guy that volunteered in Haiti years ago helping to put in water wells and piping. He said that it was amazing how they didn’t have water or sanitation, but everyone had cell phones. He then learned that the cell phones were important so that the government could get their propaganda out to the people.
[He said that it was amazing how they didn’t have water or sanitation, but everyone had cell phones. He then learned that the cell phones were important so that the government could get their propaganda out to the people.]
Incredible, isn’t it?
The cell phone, once the expensive toy of the rich has now become so affordable it’s ridiculous.
Sure, there have been significant advances in technology but I’m ready to believe that TPTB wanted this to happen. /shiny side out
No, no doubt it’s lucrative but not regarding the ones given out. Unless the human (data) IS the product.
With 3G(?) I was seeing cellphones for $5 at the gas station. Flip phones of course. They were still gonna be good for 1-1.5 years. I almost bought some as backup.
They’d be worthless now.
But no everyone (that has a cellphone) can be tracked. can have a digital passport (mostly) and can have a cashless app (in most cases).
Here we are. On the cusp of a Globalism involving cellphone apps IMHO.
Rural Jamaica is the same way.