Future of Technology
summary
Five concrete cases show the internet morphing around constraints: a town 150 km from connectivity where people drive to a McDonald’s hotspot; Orissa villages using a asynchronous bus-based sync that batches requests with 24–48 hour latency and reliably delivers e‑commerce, email and crop prices; a mother using a son and cybercafe as a live intermediary for messages; Korea’s government building a ubiquitous‑internet civic vision; Malaysian communities burning paper phones for ancestors as cultural adoption and symbol.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:20The Internet is asynchronous
- 4:00About the Internet
- 5:50Future of the Internet
- 7:30Paper Technology
- 8:50The Internet
- 9:15Conclusion
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