Prof. Quadir spoke at the Drucker School today. Excellent presentation and a lot to think about! His thesis is decentralization helps prosperity is thought provoking. It seems that most poor countries have the best of everything around the capitol. He is an advocate of using business as a tool for helping the poor, and has done a huge amount of positive work by providing cell phones in Bangledesh with grameenphone that now has 200 Million in profits and is about to go IPO. Amazing!
In a Science Fiction book I read, it mentioned how a person had gotten educated due to getting a solar powered computer that was hooked into the net. The book was EarthWeb. I prefer David's Sling. So with the success of Grameenphone, plus Moore's law, and iPhone - I wonder how long till distance learning can do something about educating people. Why the iPhone - because it's so easy to use and the size. So looking ahead 10 years I would not be surprised if an iPhone drops in price to $100 easy. There is already work on $100 Laptop, unfortunately usability is not as good and it does not seem to be doing that well.
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