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Still More on Connecting Laos
Rackemup writes "A story on Wired has some updated information on the progess made by the Remote IT Village Project attempting to connect several isolated villages deep in the Laotian Jungle to the rest of the world using wireless networks, pedal-power and Laonux (customized Linux installs translated into the Laotian language). Power surges can be a hassle when the nearest computer store is hundreds of miles away, but they're shooting for a May 18th "go live" date."
...when I hear about this kind of shit. Why force these cultures into the modern world before they're ready? What's the point? So they can have cheap access to porn, X-10 popup ads, giant companies, and general ignorance? Is this an attempt at large multinational corporations to market to *every* human on the planet? Yeah, let's homogenize the planet. Let's make every person the exact same Wal-Mart shopping, Gap-wearing drone. Leave no corner of the planet untouched. I mean, they don't have NET access!! What's wrong with these people??
Leave them alone, for christs's sake. They'll seek out the Net when and if they're ever ready. I envy any culture that's not exposed to this rathole of commercialism and crap called "The Media". My goal in life is to make enough money so I can afford to drop out completely. These people have been spared, so leave it to some stupid "welldoer" to fuck it all up.